MediaTek demonstrates the full potential of the Helio P90 processor in AI

MediaTek Talks event demonstrates the Helio P90's power in artificial intelligence and gives more details about the company's work with 5G networks

On Tuesday (13), MediaTek held the third edition of the event MediaTek Talks, where he presented the evolution of artificial intelligence in its solutions and in the recent Helio P90. The event was attended by Samir Vani, country manager gives MediaTek in Brazil, which gave more details of the company's work to make the latest technology more accessible to all people.

Artificial intelligence has spread rapidly in our daily lives, especially on smartphones. Currently, you can find the technology in devices costing less than R $ 1,000.

Samir Vani, MediaTek's country manager in Brazil.

The artificial intelligence market

According Vani, it is estimated that the artificial intelligence market $ 1.2 rail s in 2018 – an increase of approximately 70% over the previous year. All this movement changes the way we relate to the world, since cities, our jobs, and even our homes, are radically changing and adopting artificial intelligence as an essential technology for our daily lives.

Samir Vani, MediaTek's country managerSamir Vani explains a little more about how artificial intelligence works in MediaTek components

Artificial intelligence emerged in the 50's and all this trajectory of studies and discoveries allows, for example, that it gives quick and precise answers to voice commands and improves the quality of the captured photo through object recognition, applying controls of saturation, brightness and sharpness automatically, without needing user intervention.

The focus of MediaTek for this segment to further increase the processing speed of IA so that the response is almost instantaneous. Therefore, the company focuses on studying processing methods that increase efficiency, keeping the processor at low temperatures and taking up little space. Vani says that this is one of the biggest challenges facing the company today and that I project it to be a reality very soon.

Artificial intelligence in the MediaTek Helio P90

The main product of MediaTek, the processor Helio P90, has a third processing center called APU. This exchange performs a quantization – the name given to the process of facilitating the process of calculating the neural network -, seeking to reduce intermediary instances to facilitate the entire process of artificial intelligence. In short, it makes the neural network more efficient and obtain more energy efficiency, since the component aimed at processing IA, relieving the CPU and the GPU.

Smartphone type containing the Hlio P90Smartphone prototype equipped with the Hlio P90 used for AI demonstrations at the event

THE APU of paramount importance to democratize information technology IA for intermediate smartphones, because by having a smaller amount of battery, the chipset should be more economical in these processing IA to bring more expensive smartphone technologies to this type of category.

Rob used for AI testing of Helio P90MediaTek's Rob imitated the user's movements by mapping the Hlio P90

The manufacturer engineer of MediaTek, Chewen Wu, traveled to Brazil and came exclusively to the event to carry out demonstrations with artificial intelligence for the control of robots and the capture of movements in real time. O Helio P90 it manages to map the actions of the human body and map them to execute that same movement on a robot and on augmented reality avatars, for example. Check out the video below:

Because of this mapping, the chipset also allows the execution of the bokeh effect (blurry effect of smartphone cameras) in real time for video recordings with its most diverse effects, such as black and white background, blurred background, glitch effect background and many others.

5G networks and the future of Helio P90 in Brazil

THE MediaTek is developing solutions for the 5G connection market and expects to launch them already in 2020. Like artificial intelligence, it wants to democratize this technology and make it available to cheaper smartphone users. With that focus in mind, they are studying to develop components at a lower cost.

Samir Vani claims that chipsets 5G they are ready and have used all efforts to make technology cheaper. Despite being an expensive resource, he believes that these initial efforts will make the technology generate scale and naturally it will lower its price.

MediaTek 5G technologyMediaTek is ready to democratize 5G technology for its users

About the availability of Helio P90 in Brazil, not many details were given, but Vani expects the chipset from MediaTek be present on other smartphones very soon, including devices on the Brazil. Currently, the P90 is present only in Oppo Reno Z, device available only to the international market.

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