[mschuster91]

Samsung losing out to Mediatek is pretty hilarious on its own, given that Mediatek was once known for ultra-cheap, piss poor performing crap [1] and copyright issues [2]. Back some years when I had one of the first CAT rugged phones, which was based on Mediatek, I happened to look at a kernel code dump from them on Github and had I known back then what I know today I could have easily netted me some decent payout for local root exploits.

I don't really know what's more absurd, that Samsung managed to fall behind these guys or that MediaTek actually managed to get a grip on quality well enough to rival and surpass Samsung, a multi billion dollar conglomerate.

[1] https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?tag=mediatek

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9225691

[dylan522p]

MediaTek is killing it. They hired a lot of people from TSMC's process development kit teams which vastly improved their capabilities in integrating IP. They were the first to develop AV1 decode, their modems are pretty decent. They even have leading teams in wifi.

[nsteel]

It won't take much to be better to work with than brcm so let's hope they keep going.

[glowingly]

Didn't Mediatek also hire open source developers (or at least one very notable one) to work on their wifi drivers in the mainline kernel?

In [2], I'm seeing sensors (not made by Mediatek), GPU drivers (Mali, ask arm on that one), and RF (usually regulatory; legalism?), and whatever else is in that textdump. Is there anything that actually does an analysis? Even the blog source eventually just said they didn't know.

[fomine3]

MediaTek Dimensity 9000 uses TSMC 4nm process that is significantly superior than Samsung 4nm/5nm that Qualcomm/Samsung uses. Since everyone except Apple uses Cortex core, it can't lose for perf/watt on CPU. Maybe MediaTek's highend SoC won't be sold much so they can use TSMC process.