For 2026, MediaTek has expanded its Dimensity lineup with the introduction of two new mobile platforms, the Dimensity 9500s and Dimensity 8500. Aimed at flagship and premium smartphones, the new chipsets focus on boosting performance, power efficiency, AI computing, imaging, gaming, and wireless connectivity.

When it comes to mobile devices, many consider Qualcomm the superior manufacturer. However, MediaTek seems to believe its next flagship mobile chipset can beat Qualcomm's upcoming flagship. MediaTek even plans to launch the Dimensity 9500 ahead of its competitor.

Mediatek has scheduled a developer conference on April 11, 2025 in China. The conference aims to bring together developers from various sectors to share ideas and innovations relevant to artificial intelligence (AI) technology. So, what should you know about it?

It's all about AI these days, with hardware and software manufacturers designing devices to cater to that. Among them are mobile chip makers MediaTek, which has been designing chipsets to power AI platforms. In fact, the company's Dimensity 9400 chipset will arrive in Q4 2024.

If you look at chipsets for the smartphone market, it's more or less a two-horse race between Qualcomm and MediaTek. Both companies are expected to launch their latest flagship mobile chipset later this month. Best of all, we're already getting details for the latter's new Dimensity 9300.

For the longest time, ARM-based chipsets followed the ARM big.LITTLE concept. The idea is to have a CPU with performance cores and power efficiency cores. But we could see a new MediaTek chipset later this year that abandons or changes that concept.

When it comes to flagship chipsets, the GPU is often as important as the CPU. That's especially true for gaming smartphones, which are catered to mobile gamers. For MediaTek, mobile GPU has never been an area of expertise so the company decided to partner up with Nvidia.

In mid-April, MediaTek announced that it would launch a new flagship chipset on 10 May 2023. But the Dimensity 9200+ isn't the only one that the company has up its sleeve this month. Now, we also have news of the MediaTek Dimensity 7050 chipset.

In the span of a few weeks, major chip companies all released their latest mobile chipsets. There's the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, MediaTek Dimensity 9000, and the most recent Exynos 2200. It's hard to say which chipset is the best, but new benchmarks could answer this question.

In the last week or so, we've seen some news about new MediaTek chipsets. The company already launched its flagship Dimensity 9000 last month, before confirming that a Dimensity 8000 would also come soon. Now, we also have sources suggesting which devices would be the first to feature the Dimensity 8000.