MediaTek introduced three new chipsets for IoT, Wearables and Home Entertainment devices

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Taiwanese chipset maker, MediaTek, has now introduced new system-on-chip products to power UHD display, smaller and wearable devices, home entertainment products and to power all the home/office connected devices – the Internet of Things (IoT).

MediaTek, at CES 2016, announced three new systems-on-chip products. MT8581 for Ultra-HD 4K Blu-ray players with High Dynamic Range, MT2523 for high-resolution displays on wearable such as smartwatches, and MT7697 is for connected home – the IoT.

MediaTek MT8581 will be used by devices such as home entertainment systems and Blu-Ray, DVD and CD players. The new chipset will support the latest BD-ROM format (e.g. BD-Live and BonusView). It allows to scale up to 4K from DVD as well as scale down to a non-4K screen. It also features HEVC, H.264 and VP9 4K 60p video decoder for 4K (3840×2160) video content and also MPEG-2, VP8 and VC-1 2K 60p video decoder for legacy 2K (1920×1080 video content).

For audio decoding, it has capabilities for Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS, and DTS-HD master audio, via multi-format decoding, that can support high quality audio streaming.

MediaTek MT2523 is the system-in-package (SiP) that is designed for wearable devices which is claimed to have 41% smaller circuit board area than competitor’s designs. It’s also claimed that the devices powered by MT2523 will be able to last longer than a week on one battery charge.

At technical aspects, MT2523 contains a micro controller unit (MCU), dual-mode Bluetooth, GPS and a power management unit (PMU). The MCU enables wearable devices with lower power consumption and smaller form factors than Android Wear. The display component supports MIPI-DSI and serial interfaces, resulting in a high-resolution mobile screen. It includes 2D capabilities of true color, per pixel alpha channel and anti-aliasing fonts, plus 1-bit index color to save memory and computing power.

MT2523 features an ARM Cortex-M4 processor, which combines high-efficiency signal processing functionality with low power, low cost and ease-of-use benefits.

MediaTek MT7697 will bridge Internet of Things (IoT) in the home. It will provide high levels of integration with low power consumption for applications such as home appliances, home automation, smart gadgets, IoT bridges and cloud connectivity.

It supports Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and provides the highest integration when compared to other SoCs, combining and optimizing DB WiFi, BLE, CM4 and RAM. It embeds a power amplifier with TX Power up to 10 decibel-milliwatts (dBm). On iOS devices specifically, MT7697’s BLE supports up to 160 bytes of maximum transmission units (ATT_MTU). It will provide increased flexibility in both BLE for the short range and WiFi for long range and better Internet access.

Another version of the chipset MT7697D will feature a dual-band WiFi that offers 2.4GHz and 5GHz support.

The MT2523 and MT7697 will be available in the first half of 2016 while the MT8581 is set for mass production in second half of 2016.