New MediaTek chipset to enable smart voice devices

New Delhi May 18 (IANS) Taiwanese semi-conductor company MediaTek on Thursday launched a new chipset designed to enable Voice Assistant Devices (VADs) and smart speakers including the Google Assistant.

Smart home products are growing in popularity and MediaTek s expertise is making connected devices smarter smaller and more power efficient without sacrificing performance said Joe Chen Executive Vice President and Co-COO of MediaTek.

MT8516 is equipped with a quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A35 MPCore operating at up to 1.3GHz.

The chipset also pre-integrates WiFi 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth 4.0.

Our dedicated Android support will help expand the market for voice-based intelligent devices added Chen.

New Google Assistant devices using MT8516 are expected to hit the marker later this year.

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