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MediaTek Inc on Wednesday said it would use Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co<\/a>'s 6-nanometer chipmaking technology for its newest chips aimed at premium 5G<\/a> smartphones.
Taiwan's MediaTek appears to be one of the first high-volume customers for the technology and is among a handful of companies with modem technology to connect phones to mobile data networks, competing against Qualcomm Inc<\/a> and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. The new chips announced Wednesday, called Dimensity 1100 and 1200, build on MediaTek's efforts to go after higher-priced handsets where Qualcomm's Snapdragon chips have historically had stronger market share.
Like Qualcomm and Apple<\/a>, MediaTek designs chips and then contracts out production to outside firms. The newest chips will be made at TSMC<\/a>, on a chipmaking technology called 6-nanometer. Qualcomm's chips are being made by Samsung on 5-nanometer technology while Apple Inc uses TSMC's 5-nanometer technology.
Smaller chipmaker technology is faster and more power efficient. MediaTek's previous chips used a 7-nanometer process, and moving to newer manufacturing technology along with advances in the chip's design make it 22% faster at computing tasks while consuming 25% less power, Finbarr Moynihan, general manager of international<\/a> corporate sales, told Reuters in an interview.
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