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MediaTek wants to bring gaming chipsets to very cheap phones (Update: Launched)
June 24, 2025
Update, June 21, 2025 (04:20 PM ET):MediaTek previously hinted at the upcoming launch of a budget-oriented gaming chipset called the Helio G70. Today, the companyformally took the wraps off the new silicon.
You can see the full specs of the new chipsethere. You’ll likely find the Helio G70 in upcoming gaming-centric smartphones in the sub-$200 range,
Original article, July 15, 2025 (08:30 AM ET):Gaming-branded chipsets have become a thing in the last year or so, thanks to Qualcomm’sSnapdragon 730Gand MediaTek’sHelio G90T.
Both of these processors target the mid-range to upper mid-range price brackets, but it looks likeMediaTekis aiming even lower with its next gaming chipset.
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We’ve heard murmurings (both official andunofficial) of the Helio G70 chipset’s pending release, and the company has now confirmed that a lower end G-series SoC is coming.
MediaTek’s Yenchi Lee toldAndroid Authoritythat it would fall below the G90 series in terms of capabilities but not by much. “Definitely, it’s lower than G90T, it’s more for mass market (sic),” Lee was quoted as saying, adding that we’d hear about the new gaming chipset “very soon.”
The company didn’t disclose specs, but hopefully, it doesn’t make too many performance compromises. Nevertheless, onesupposed leakpoints to an octa-core CPU design (two Cortex-A75 and six Cortex-A55) and a Mali-G52 MC2 GPU.
On GPU updates and tri-cluster tech
The firm also pioneered the tri-cluster or triple power domain CPU trend currently seen on many flagship chipsets, dividing the CPU cores into big, medium, and little cores. We don’t see this on theDimensity 1000or newDimensity 800processors though, but MediaTek says it isn’t giving up on this technology.
“I think we are continuing to do this tri-cluster technology, and you will see that soon in the future,” Lee said, without disclosing a launch window.
Qualcommdelivered a rather cool feature at itsSnapdragon 865 and 765launch last month, announcing that it will offerGPU updates via the Play Store. This means you don’t need to wait for a system update to get the latest graphics drivers and fixes for your phone. MediaTek says it’s investigating this technology too.
“Yeah, we are trying to see if we’ll be able to do that in the future,” Lee noted, but could we see it in 2020 then? “We don’t have a timeline yet. We have to verify we work with our partners to provide that.”
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