64-BIT Mediatek MT6732 and MT6752 confirmed to be Cortex A53 with 4G LTE

Details of Mediatek’s first 64-BIT processors confirm ARM Cortex A53 architecture, and 4G lte support.

More details of Mediatek’s new 64-BIT processors, which are positioned to take on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 chipset, confirm a few of the specifications. The new details show that Mediatek will be using ARM’s Cortex A53 architecture on the new chipsets which should increase performance while maintaining energy efficiency. In addition the processors, MT6732 quad-core and MT6752 octacore will each feature support for WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, GSM, FDD-lte and TD-LTE.

Mediatek will release both processors this year and we can expect to see the first 64-BIT Chinese smartphones around the end of 2014.

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