MediaTek Helio X20 chipset is out with 10-core CPU and Mali-T800 GPU

Say hello to world’s first 1-core chipset, the Helio X20 by MediaTek. The Taiwanese semiconductor company poked physics right in the eye by building the first tri-cluster design on an SoC.

The CPU is arranged in three sets. The first set is the power-conserving 1.4GHz four ARM Cortex-A53 cores while the second set, clocked at 2GHz (quad-core Cortex-A53) does the midrange jobs before letting the last pack — dual Cortex-A72 cores clocked at 2.5Ghz — come in when the job needs to be done aggressively in full throttle.

In terms of graphics, the Helio X20 houses a Mali-T800 picture processing card. The chip comes with two LPDDR3 memory slots running at 0.93GHz.