MediaTek recently announced the launch of the Helio P70 system-on-chip (SoC), with an enhanced AI engine combined with CPU and GPU upgrades for more powerful AI processing. Helio P70 also comes with upgraded imaging and camera support, a gaming performance boost and advanced connectivity features.

Built with TSMC’s 12-nm FinFET technology, the new device features a multi-core APU operating at up to 525 MHz. To handle AI applications, the chipset includes four Arm Cortex-A73 2.1-GHz processors and four Arm Cortex-A53 2.0-GHz processors in an octa-core big.LITTLE configuration. In addition, the chipset has an improved Arm Mali-G72 MP3 GPU operating at up to 900 MHz.

Helio P70 is built on MediaTek’s NeuroPilot platform, the company’s comprehensive hardware and software ecosystem to support edge AI. NeuroPilot supports common AI frameworks, including TensorFlow, TF Lite, Caffe, Caffe2 and custom third-party offerings. Helio P70’s enhanced AI engine can support complex AI applications such as real-time human pose recognition and AI based video encoding. Helio P70 GPU enhancements also deliver a better overall gaming experience as it’s optimized to reduce frame-rate jitter and improve latency for touch controls and display visuals for a smooth, fluid gaming experience.

Helio P70 supports a variety of AI-infused photo and video experiences including real-time beautification, scene detection and artificial reality (AR) capabilities. The chipset features improved deep-learning facial detection with up to 90 percent accuracy. With support for a super-sized 32MP single camera, or 24+16MP dual cameras, the chipset gives device makers more design flexibility. Its three ISPs are tuned to provide significant power savings, reducing consumption by 18 percent compared to previous Helio generation dual-camera setups.

The SoC comes with a 4G LTE modem and 300MBit/s of download performance. Dual 4G VoLTE support provides a seamless user experience across two different SIMs for higher quality calls and faster connection times. The part is now in volume production.