A few days ago, MediaTek set an event for January 20 to unveil its latest flagship mobile chipset. This silicon is expected to be a 6nm Dimensity series SoC, which company t weakened back in November 2020. Now, ahead of the official announcement, GM Redmi has confirmed that the smartphone is powered by this chip.
Recently, Lu Weibing, CEO of Redmi, confirmed the appearance of the Redmi K40 series powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 888. Listing Some key features, he also announced that the brand's latest flagship smartphone series will debut in February.
Today he surprised his followers on Weibo, confirming another high-end Redmi smartphone based on the upcoming 6nm SoC MediaTek Dimensity. His post notes that Redmi The K30 Ultra with MediaTek Dimensity 1000+ has now reached its end of life. Therefore, in 2021 it will be replaced by a new device with the latest Dimensity chip.
Since he does not mention a specific time period for the launch of this phone, we believe it may only debut in the second half of the year, as does Redmi K30 Ultra ... Hence, it is safe to assume that the future Redmi K40 and Redmi K40 Pro will be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 700 series chip and] Snapdragon 888 SoC.
In any case, there is a chance to get a third device with a new chip. MediaTek in the Redmi K40 series which will be released next month.
However, according to the leak, Dimensity's upcoming flagship chip will carry the model number MT6893. It will be an eight-core processor built on a 6nm process technology. Its processor will consist of 1xARM Cortex-A78 clocked at 3,0GHz, 3xARM Cortex-A78 clocked at 2,6GHz and 4xARM Cortex-A55 clocked at 2,0GHz. As for the GPU, it will ship with an ARM Mali-G77 MC9.
