Summary
MediaTek announced the Dimensity 9600 Pro, a 2nm smartphone SoC with dual-NPU architecture and support for on-device applications using models up to 30 billion parameters. MediaTek claims 55% higher token generation per watt and a 40% reduction in always-on AI power consumption compared with the prior generation.
Why it matters
The chip pushes agentic AI further into mass-market mobile hardware, where power efficiency and local privacy are as important as raw model capability.
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