MediaTek Kompanio Ultra 910 for Chromebooks now official

MediaTek has unveiled its new Kompanio Ultra 910 chipset, aimed at boosting the performance of Chromebooks. The processor prioritizes AI capabilities, better power efficiency, and faster connectivity, offering improvements for productivity, creativity, and multimedia tasks.

Built using TSMC’s 2nd-gen 3nm process, the Kompanio Ultra 910 is designed to deliver strong performance without draining the battery. The chip features an 8-core CPU, including a high-performance Arm Cortex-X925 core running at speeds of up to 3.62GHz, alongside three Cortex-X4 cores and four Cortex-A720 cores.

With 12MB of L3 cache and 10MB of system-level cache, the chipset is built to handle both single-threaded and multi-threaded tasks smoothly. For graphics, the 11-core Immortalis-G925 GPU supports ray tracing, making it a good fit for gaming and other graphics-heavy applications.

The Kompanio Ultra 910 supports LPDDR5X at 8533Mbps, ensuring quick data transfer between the CPU, GPU, and NPU. Early benchmarks show strong performance, with Geekbench 6 scores of 2600 for single-core and 8000 for multi-core.

A key feature of the Kompanio Ultra 910 is its 8th-generation NPU, which enhances AI performance on devices. This allows for real-time AI tasks, such as image and video generation.

The NPU offers up to 50 TOPS of AI performance and excels in generative AI workloads, offering improved power efficiency by offloading tasks from the CPU and GPU.

Connectivity-wise, the chip supports Wi-Fi 7, offering speeds up to 7.3Gbps, and Bluetooth 6.0, which improves signal range and stability with its dual Bluetooth engine.

For multimedia, the Kompanio Ultra 910 can drive up to three 4K displays—one on the device and two external—and supports 4K video decoding and encoding in formats like HEVC, AVC, VP9, and AV1. The chip also includes Hi-Fi Audio DSPs for enhanced sound quality and low-power keyword detection, ideal for voice assistants.

MediaTek says that Chromebooks powered by the Kompanio Ultra will be available “in the coming months.”