The MediaTek Dimensity 9400 SoC, the company’s latest flagship smartphone processor, was unveiled on Wednesday. The company previously announced that the mobile platform would be unveiled in October and shared some minor details, but now it has detailed the specifications and capabilities of the processor. The tech giant said the new system-on-a-chip (SoC) offers 35 percent more performance per core than its predecessor. The MediaTek Dimensity 9400 SoC competes with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset and the Apple A18 series chipsets.

In a press release, the chip maker introduced a new mobile platform. The MediaTek Dimensity 9400 chipset is a fourth-generation flagship processor built on the Arm v9.2 CPU architecture, along with a dedicated GPU and Neural Processing Unit (NPU) architecture. It is noteworthy that it is created on the basis of TSMC’s second-generation 3nm technological process.

Continuing the tradition of big core design, it has one Cortex-X925 core with a maximum clock frequency of 3.62 GHz, three Cortex-X4 cores and four Cortex-A720 cores. The company claims the CPU architecture delivers 35 percent greater single-core performance and 28 percent greater multi-core performance compared to the Dimensity 9300 SoC. It is also said to offer 40 percent more energy efficiency compared to its predecessor.

The MediaTek Dimensity 9400 chipset also integrates the company’s eighth-generation NPU and offers on-device LoRA training, on-device video creation, and developer support for Agentic artificial intelligence (AI). The company claimed that the SoC can provide up to 80 percent faster large language model (LLM) while maintaining 35 percent more power efficiency than the previous generation.

As for the GPU, the mobile platform is integrated with a 12-core Arm Immortalis-G925 processor, which is said to offer 40 percent more ray tracing performance compared to its predecessor. In addition, MediaTek claimed that it also offers a 41 percent performance boost and 44 percent power savings compared to the Dimensity 9300. The chipset also supports HyperEngine technology.

In addition, the MediaTek Dimensity 9400 has an Imagiq 1090 for image processing on the device. It also has some minor improvements, such as HDR video recording across the zoom range, improved motion capture, and lower power consumption when recording 4K60 fps video compared to its predecessor.