Overview
- MediaTek officially confirmed a product announcement on September 15 at 2:30 p.m. China time, posting a teaser for the Dimensity 9600 Pro on its Weibo account.
- The company says the 9600 Pro is its first 'Pro-grade' chipset built on TSMC’s 2nm process and that Design Technology Co-optimisation (DTCO) underpins claimed gains in power efficiency and sustained performance.
- MediaTek’s teaser lists concrete feature upgrades for gaming and cameras, including AI-assisted GPU rendering, improved ray tracing, a refreshed Star Speed Engine, 4K 120 fps video capture and enhanced slow-motion support.
- Leaks and industry posts report an 8-core CPU layout with very high clock speeds and a Mali-G2 Ultra NX MC12 GPU, plus a Geekbench listing tied to an unannounced Vivo device, but those technical details remain unverified until the launch.
- Analysts see the move as part of a growing two-tier flagship strategy—a 2nm Pro model and a likely 3nm regular 9600—to let OEMs split high-end devices by performance, cost and features while exposing trade-offs in yield and pricing from advanced nodes.