Pretty impressive performance, from both the CPU and surprisingly, the GPU too. The D9300 looks to be very promising. It's a shame that we probably won't see much of it in the West (at least, not in NA).
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Mediatek is a Taiwanese company so there should be no restrictions in selling, buying or importing them in NA.
That's true, but Qualcomm basically has a monopoly in NA because of its patents that make it nearly impossible for anyone else to have a modem that works there.
This is the reason why Samsung always uses Snapdragon in NA even when it's Exynos everywhere else.
That's just wrong. For a high profile example, see Pixel/Tensor with its Samsung modem.
This is the reason why Samsung always uses Snapdragon in NA even when it's Exynos everywhere else.
The exact geographic split has varied a ton over the years, but has never been exclusively Snapdragon in the US.
It depends on the model if they use exynos. The Z line-up only has had snapdragon up till now.
Exynos chips work in North America and are sold by Samsung in North America. This is an Exynos phone released this year:
https://www.verizon.com/smartphones/samsung-galaxy-a54-5g/
And don't forget the Google Pixel. That's an SoC with an Exynos modem because it mostly is an Exynos SoC.
The reason you won't see it today is due to low variety of OEMs in the US. You have Apple,Samsung and that's 80% of the market.
The 3rd that sells the most is Motorola, then Google
We already knew that both its CPU & GPU performance is class leading. However, it's incredibly impressive that the battery life is not affected by the lack of tiny cores. It's even improved over the predecessor.
The era of little cores is over.
A new era has begun.
What the hell is that 4+4+0 monster? And how the duck is it so efficient? This chip just blew what I thought is common sense that you need small cores for efficiency. Oh man, mediatek has come a long way, and qualcomm gotta take an L this year i guess.
They inspired by HAL 9000 for the design of that backface?
Wooow. It does look like HAL. No wonder it felt familiar, because I wasn't able to put my finger on it until you said this. Lol.