On May 23rd, MediaTek officially released its first 5G chip 1050, which supports millimeter wave and sub-6GHz. Although it was released after Tianji 1300, it is not difficult to see from the naming that its performance should be weaker than Tianji 1 100.

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Tianji 1050 adopts TSMC 6nm process, eight nuclear CPU, equipped with two 2.5GHz Arm Cortex-A78 cores, and the GPU part is brand-new Arm Mali-G6 10. Although the performance parameters of Tianji 1050 are not excellent, the energy consumption ratio is quite reassuring due to TSMC's 6nm process. In addition, Tianji 1050 supports the dual connection and seamless switching of 5G millimeter wave and sub-6GHz full-band networks, which improves the speed and stability to some extent.

Earlier, MediaTek mainly deployed 5G chips in the frequency band below 6GHz, such as Tianji 9000 and Tianji 8000 series, which received rave reviews. This time, it not only supports millimeter wave on Tianji 1050, but also provides seamless switching technology in all frequency bands, which makes some netizens guess that MediaTek will enter the North American market?

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In fact, the common 5G frequency bands are roughly divided into millimeter wave and sub-6GHz. The former has faster network speed, but small coverage and poor penetration. The latter covers a very wide range, and even between buildings, the signal penetration ability is still stronger than millimeter wave. Looking at the global usage of these two 5G bands, North America, Japan and South Korea are more enthusiastic about millimeter waves, because metropolitan users in these countries and regions have higher demand for network speed and high construction costs, but the overall coverage area cannot meet the needs of most users.

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MediaTek has done very well this year. On the one hand, the performance of other mobile platforms has not been as good as expected, which makes users who choose to change their phones this year start to look for better substitutes, providing a good opportunity for MediaTek. On the other hand, years of research and development have finally made great progress in Tianji 9000 and Tianji 8000 series, which is the result of a good opportunity. One Plus OPPO has been favored in the domestic market, and it has also made more overseas users know about MediaTek. MediaTek chose to release the secret 1050 at this moment, perhaps because it took a fancy to its insufficient position in the overseas low-end market and continued to launch the first shot of new markets by sneaking into the low-end market.

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