The Chinese 8-core revolution is nearly upon us so here are the top 5 8-core Mediaek Chinese phones we are most excited to see launch!

It’s that time of year again, the time of year that Chinese phone makers battle it out to be first sporting the latest Mediatek processor! Here is Zopo’s entrant with an 8-core Mediatek MT6592 chip!

Meidatek have a number of new processors ready to take the Chinese phone industry by storm and one mystery SoC is already in testing as seen here in leaked Antutu results.

Mediatek have gone on the record to confirm that they have LTE baseband support in the works and a processor will launch early next year.

MediaTek and ARM have signed a deal allowing the Taiwanese chip maker to use ARM’s Cortex A50 processors and ARM Mali Graphics chips.

Taiwanese chip maker Mediatek, who have risen from the ranks of cheap knock-off phones to high end devices from Xiaomi, Sony and others, posted their Q3 earnings today showing an impressive 17% increase in sales.

Mediatek must have impressed someone at Samsung, as reports are coming in that the Korean Android giant is planning to adopt the latest 8-core SoC the Taiwanese company.

The OrientPhone N8 is a budget conscious quad-core, 8-inch tablet with built-in 3G and support of voice calls.

Chinese startup Dakele will launch the much anticipated Dakele 3 tomorrow in Beijing and rumours suggest it could be the first of the new breed of Mediatek phones.

Taiwanese chip maker Mediatek have already announced that they plan to launch the 8-core MT6592 processor this year, and it looks like phone makers will launch 8-core phones earlier than expected.

The question put up by Andi, whether Mediatek should embrace GPL (or at least offer more tools to custom ROM devs) can, in my opinon, be easily answered with “Yes”. If you buy a device, its always great to have the opportunity to fiddle around with it and change things. Theres already a lot possible, once you acquire root rights on your Android system, but if the hardware base is open too, the possibilities are even bigger.

Chinese phone makers are finally looking to offer their phones to the international community, but with very little developer support available for MTK phones should we push Mediatek to honor GPL, or push manufacturers to rival processors.

Chinese phone maker and manufacturer of Alcatel phones, TCL has announced that they have started work on an 8-core Mediatek phone!

While we were busy in Beijing yesterday Lenovo was wooing the crowds at IFA with their new high-end Mediatek handset the Lenovo Vibe X.

Imagine you were the maker of phone processor, you were top dog until a little upstart took over one of the world’s fastest growing market! What would you do? Well if you’re anything like Qualcomm you would make a tacky video poking fun.

Chinese smartphones are as powerful well spec’d and affordable thanks to Taiwanese chip maker Mediatek’s excellent processors, Rockchips is now stepping up its game to take on the current leader.

Mediatek have officially announce their true 8-core mobile phone chipset today. More details of the 8-core MT6592 here.

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 SoC might have finally met its match in the form of the octa-core Mediatek MT6592.

We all love the great value of money and performance Mediatek powered phones offer, but we do wish they would offer better GPS! Thankfully we have a fix for that, keep reading to see how to fix poor GPS on Mediatek phones.

Mediateks chipset roadmap gives us full details of the upcoming octa-core chpset along with details of an all new quad-core processor!