MediaTek is developing a flagship 2nm smartphone SoC, will be released in 2026

MediaTek earlier announced that it is one of the very first companies in the world to partner with TSMC to sucessfully developerd a chip using the enhanced N2P process.

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2nm is coming!

According to the company, they are taping out their own flagship system-on-chip (SoC) with volume production expected late next year, 2026.

The press release we received said that TSMC's 2nm technology is the first to adopt nanosheet transistor structure. Meanwhile, N2P represents the next evolution in the 2nm family, set to deliver improved performance and power efficiency. 

Compared to the current-gen N3E node, the new N2P process delivers up to 18 percent better performance at the same power, reducing power consumption by around 36 percent at equal speed, and boosts logic density by 1.2x—making it a major leap in chip efficiency and scalability.

MediaTek's innovations powered by TSMC’s 2nm technology underscores our industry leadership, as we continue to push forward with the most advanced semiconductor process technologies available for a variety of devices and applications, said Joe Chen, President of MediaTek. Our long history of close collaboration with TSMC has led to incredible advancements in solutions for our global customers, offering the highest performance and power efficiency from the edge to the cloud.

N2P represents a significant step forward in the nanosheet era for TSMC, demonstrating our relentless dedication to fulfilling our customers' needs – tuning and improving our technologies to deliver energy-efficient computing capability, said Dr. Kevin Zhang, Senior Vice President of Business Development and Global Sales and Deputy Co-COO of TSMC. Our ongoing collaboration with MediaTek focuses on maximizing enhanced performance and power capabilities across a wide range of applications.

Will this technology continue to help MediaTek build some of the world's best mobile chips?

What do you guys think?