Mediatek expands its like of Kompanio chips with the announcement of the Kompanio 1380. Making its debut with the Acer Chromebook Spin 513, the Kompanio 1380 aims to to deliver top-notch performance for Chromebooks.
The Kompanio 1380 has an octa-core CPU design with four Cortex-A78 cores running at up to 3Ghz, along with a 5-core Mali-G57 GPU. It supports LPDDR4X at up to 2133Mhz quad-channel for having more than enough bandwidth for most tasks. The chip is manufactured using at 6nm process.
As a top-end processor, the Kompanio 1380 can support two 4K displays at 60hz or one 4K display at 60hz and two 4K displays at 30hz for multi-monitor setups.
Other features of the Kompanio 1380 include Mediatek’s APU 3.0 multi-core AI processor for AI-related tasks, AV1 hardware decoding for streaming 4K movies and TV shows while having good battery life, a dedicated audio DSP for voice-on-wakeup feature with voice assistants, and support for WiFi 6/6E and Bluetooth 5.0.
“Chromebook users have come to expect more from their Chromebooks, increasingly they are looking for their devices to strike a perfect balance of performance, weight and power efficiency,” Google VP of Chrome OS John Solomon said.
Aside from the Chromebook Spin 513, Mediatek said that more devices will use the Kompanio 1380 later this year.
