Mediatek Helio P60 Cortex A73/A53 Mobile Processor Includes NeuroPilot AI technology

Neural Network Accelerators (NNA) may have become a must-have block in high-end mobile processors. Huawei Kirin 970, Samsung Exynos 9810, and Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 (via its Hexagon DSP) processors all come with NNA or NPU (Neural Processing Unit) to speed up tasks and comsume less power for tasks related to artificial intelligence / machine learning.

Mediatek has also jumped on the bandwagon with Helio P60 chipset featuring four Cortex A73 cores, four Cortex A53 cores, an Arm Mali-G72MP3 GPU and a multi-core mobile APU (AI Processing Unit) leveraging the company’s NeuroPilot AI technology.

Mediatek P60 key specifications:

CPU – big.LITTLE Octa-core with four Arm Cortex-A73 up 2.0 GHz and four Arm Cortex-A53 up to 2.0 GHz
GPU – Arm Mali-G72 MP3 at 800MHz
Multi-core AI processing unit (Mobile APU) – 280 GMAC/s; offers deep learning facial recognition, object and scene identification, user behavior-informed performance and other AI and AR application enhancements.
System Memory – Up to 8GB, dual-channel LPDDR4x @ 1800 MHz
Storage – eMMC 5.1 / UFS 2.1
Display – Up to Full HD+ 20:9 (2400×1080)
Camera – Up to 16+20MP or 32MP
Cellular – LTE Cat-7 (DL) / Cat-13 (UL); Dual 4G VoLTE; TAS 2.0; Global IMS
Connectivity – 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.2 and FM radio
GNSS – GPS/GLONASS/Beidou or GPS/GLONASS/Galileo co-receive
MediaTek CorePilot 4.0 – Energy Aware Scheduling, thermal management and UX monitoring
Manufacturing Process – TSMC 12nm FinFET

Helio P60 is said to deliver 70% higher performance, 25% power savings in heavy duty games, and overall power savings of up to 12% compared to the previous generation MediaTek Helio P23 series chipset. The APU offers double the power efficiency of the GPU for AI processing.

MediaTek Neuropilot AI SDK complies with Google Android Neural Network API (Android NNAPI), and supports common AI frameworks such as TensorFlow, TensorFlow Lite, Caffe, Caffe2, etc… with ONNX (Open Neural Network Exchange) being worked on.

MediaTek Helio P60 based smartphones will start selling in early Q2 2018. More detail on the product page.

Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft)

Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.