Chipmaker MediaTek is being explicit about what our phones futures will entail.
In its best Elmo impression, MediaTek is asking, Can you say the word agentic?
What does that mean, exactly?
Just what will these little AI chips do for ‘agentification?’ We’ll have to wait and see.© Photo: Kyle Barr / Gizmodo
To break it down, agentic refers toAI agents.
Think of those as multiple AI models working in tandem to complete a task.
Taiwan-based MediaTek claims its chips can do around 50 tokens per second for AI computation.
None of the current leaks, like those onSmartPrixandWCCFTech, show comparisons between both chips NPUs.
Its supposed to get 35% better single-core and 28% better multi-core performance than the 9300.
Its also supporting a 12-core ARM Immortalis-G925 GPU with better ray tracing support.
Otherwise, the new MediaTek chipsupports LPDDR5X memory at 10.7 GBps and is supposed to improve power efficiency.
The real question for 2025 is whether agentic AI will work as advertised.
So far, on-machine AI is simply offering a more complicated assistant apparatus thats capable of lying to you.
Update 10/9/2024 at 9:35 a.m.:This post was updated to correct MediaTeks main base of operations.
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