The Dimensity 9400 is scheduled to be announced later this year, and one of the most significant differences between it and chipsets like the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 and A17 Pro is that MediaTek will not rely on custom cores for its upcoming SoC.
Instead, ARM’s current CPU designs will be utilized, which might give an impression that the Dimensity 9400 is at a distinct disadvantage.
However, one tipster claims that MediaTek and ARM are collaborating to use the latter’s ‘BlackHawk’ architecture in the upcoming silicon, potentially delivering better Instructions Per Clock (IPC) performance than competing current-generation chips.
Dimensity 9400 could feature an optimized version of ARM’s Cortex-X5 to deliver unrivaled single-core performance It has been rumored that just like the Dimensity 9300, MediaTek’s Dimensity 9400 will lack any efficiency cores, giving it an edge in multi-threaded workloads.
However, with the addition of the Cortex-X5, which uses ARM’s new BlackHawk architecture, Weibo tipster Digital Chat Station claims that the internal testing is promising.