MediaTek also attacks the 'wearables' market with its first ultra-low power chipset for Android Wear. MediaTek MT2601 has been announce as a new processor specially designed for Android Wear devices, for wearables and cost-efficient.
The chip company presents an ARM Cortex A7 processor of two cores, with ARM Mali-400 GPU and supports qHD screen (more than enough for the actual resolution in the field of wearables). This new MT2601 chip also has support for Bluetooth with MT6630 SoC.
Consumption of this MT2601 has also been controlled to exactly
fit the type of energy efficient required by current smartwatches, namely
41.5% have less internal components and energy consumption mobile alternatives.
There seems to Android Wear finished completely off,
although it is clear that the wearable devices have become the major workhorse
for the future market of consumer electronics. That is why none of the actors want to lose camber, and even
hardware manufacturers entrenched positions, as a MediaTek just introduced its
new MediaTek MT2601 chipset specifically designed for wearables.
The processor is already in production and will surely soon
begin receiving competition. Currently most Android Wear watches come with a
Snapdragon 400, a processor that does not fit exactly what smartwatches seek.We'll see if MediaTek manages to find the key to get
wearables below 100 euros and to those who have all the latest Android Wear.
Now it is time to see how this type of processors specifically manufactured for wearables evolves. In a world of
smartphones and tablets we have seen a struggle between Qualcomm, MediaTek and
NVIDIA, would be interesting to see what come next between those in the smartwatches world.
MediaTek, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company that designs and distributes products as components for wireless communications, optical storage, GPS, HDTV and DVD. The company was founded on May 28 1997 and is headquartered in Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park in Hsinchu City, Taiwan, with subsidiaries engaged in sales and research in mainland China, Singapore, India, Japan, South Korea, EE. UU., Denmark and UK. Currently, the company is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
Source: Fonearena
