As of the second quarter of this year, MediaTek has managed to keep its high point in the mobile application processor market (AP). Its continuous success can be credited with its strategy to target affordable 5g phones and flood the market with countless chipsets. Smartphones, however, are no longer the only hot consumption electronics nowadays because Chromebook’s sales continue to overcome. Expanding its portfolio to capture this lucrative market, MediaTek does what it does the best and gives the ChromeBook market a new 5G processor to deal with other levels of this market.
The Kompanio line of MediaTek is relatively new, so there are not only many of them compared to the Helio lines and chipmaker sizing. There are actually only two months ago when the company unveiled its upscale 1300T kompanion, for Premium Android tablets. This time, it turns to its roots and launches a new chip system for chrome laptops and tablets.
The MediaTek Kompanio 900T takes after the Kompanio 1200 and 1300T, but takes things on a notch. Instead of eight hearts, it uses two Cortex-A78 hearts and four effective Cortex-A55 cores. The GPU also receives degradation from a mali-G68 M4 which is at least capable of driving a 2K 2000 × 1200 display to 120Hz. A significant upgrade is that it supports LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage that the upper chips do not do it.
This defines the Kompanio 900T outside the mid-range chipsets is its support for 5G networks. The Spirit is still sub-6GHz 5G, so that MediaTek customers are probably always waiting for a Kompanio chip with the MMWave 5G support. That said, a 5G chomebook is always a rare beast, especially if it comes with an accessible price tag.
MediaTek says that routine chromes and tablets on this new Kompanio 900T will be available soon but do not give any timelines for that. Opportunity windows, however, could quickly get closer when ChromeBook’s demand and sales should slow down and fall soon.