Overview
- MediaTek unveiled the Dimensity 9600 Pro and a companion 9600M, which the company revealed on Tuesday, September 15, and said the 9600 Pro is fabricated on TSMC’s 2nm N2P node while the 9600M targets a wider flagship tier.
- The 9600 Pro uses a 2+3+3 All Big Core CPU with two C2‑Ultra and six C2‑Pro cores, a larger 34.5MB cache, and MediaTek’s scheduling engine, with the company claiming up to 17% single‑core and 15% multi‑core gains alongside major reductions in multi‑core power draw.
- MediaTek describes a dual‑NPU Agentic AI architecture—an NPU 1090 for heavy LLM work plus a Super Efficient NPU for always‑on tasks—that it says can run models up to 30 billion parameters on device while improving AI performance per watt.
- The platform adds first‑wave support for LPDDR6 memory and UFS 5.0 storage, a new Imagiq 1290 ISP and a G2‑Ultra NX GPU with hardware ray tracing, and OEMs including OPPO and vivo have confirmed phones using the 9600 Pro will launch internationally this quarter.
- All performance and AI figures are MediaTek’s lab or vendor claims and await independent benchmarks and real‑world device tests, and the move to 2nm narrows a manufacturing gap with rivals while carrying potential yield, cost, and availability trade‑offs as MediaTek expands into cloud AI accelerators.