MediaTek has announced the launch of the new Kompanio 838 chip. MediaTek describes this SoC as targeted at the mainstream market, designed to power lightweight Chromebooks with a silent, fanless design. It offers exceptional battery life, delivering an excellent experience for high-performance computing, productivity enhancement, multimedia, web browsing, and gaming.
MediaTek claims that the Kompanio 838 achieves up to a 76% improvement in graphics performance, a 66% enhancement in CPU-based benchmarks, and a 60% increase in web-based benchmarks compared to the Kompanio 500 series. John Solomon, Vice President of Google ChromeOS, stated that the Kompanio 838 strikes a perfect balance between performance and power consumption, bringing critical innovations to Chromebooks and offering a powerful, affordable, and convenient computing experience to consumers worldwide.
The Kompanio 838 is manufactured using a 6nm process and features a “2+6” dual-cluster CPU architecture, with two performance-focused Arm Cortex-A78 cores clocked at 2.6 GHz and six energy-efficient Arm Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 2.0 GHz. The GPU is a five-core Arm-Mali G57 MC3. The integrated AI processor, NPU 650, boasts 4 TOPs of computing power, providing enhanced interactivity and higher-quality multimedia. It supports LPDDR4x-3733 and DDR4-3200 memory with a 64-bit bandwidth and eMMC 5.1 storage. The Imagiq 7 series ISP supports up to 16MP+16MP@30FPS.
The Kompanio 838 can support dual 4K displays, 4K@60Hz+4K@30Hz, and supports H.264 and HEVC (H.265) video encoding as well as H.264, HEVC, VP-9, and AV1 video decoding. Additionally, it supports Wi-Fi 6/6E with 2×2 antennas, achieving speeds up to 1.9Gbps, and offers PCIe x1, one USB 3.0, and two USB 2.0 external interfaces.
