MediaTek announces powerful new MT8173 chipset based on ARM Cortex A72 architecture

MediaTek announced its first Cortex-A72 architecture based chipset at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The MT8173 chipset is a high-performance quad-core chipset comprising of two Cortex-A72 cores and two Cortex-A53 cores. The four cores are configured using ARM’s big.LITTLE, allowing them to run at their full clock speed (2.4GHz) at the same time whenever...