Taiwanese chip maker MediaTek announced the release date of its upcoming chipset earlier today in a blog post on Weibo. The Dimensity 8300, which is expected to be a more affordable counterpart of its flagship lineup, kicks off next week. According to the post, the new chipset will be released on November 21 at 3 PM Beijing time via a live stream on the Chinese platform (Via GSMArena).
Since the caption is in Chinese, we've shared an English version below:
"The shock is coming!
Poke button to make an appointment
November 21, 15:00"
No details have been revealed, but rumors exist that the upcoming chipset is expected to use a 1+3+4 core architecture with ARMv9 cores. Moreover, it is also said to use a Cortex-X3 prime core clocked at 2.8GHz joined by three Cortex-A715 performance cores at 2.4GHz and four Cortex-A510 efficiency cores at 1.6GHz. More information will be revealed at a later date.
Source: Weibo (in Chinese), Via: GSMArena