Helio P23

This morning MediaTek is taking the wraps off of their latest SoCs for the midrange phone market. Dubbed the Helio P30 and Helio P23, these are robust upgrades to the P20 series launched over the last year and a half, retaining the same octa-core Cortex-A53 CPU architecture but upgrading many other facets of the SoCs, including the GPUs and modems. MediaTek will be rolling these out next quarter, with the P23 going worldwide while the P30 starts its life in China. MediaTek is of course one of the industry’s most prolific SoC vendors, and these days one of a handful of independent smartphone SoC vendors not directly tied to a handset vendor. As a result their chips tend to show up frequently in the GSM/LTE...