Many SoCs are being organized for upcoming 2025 gadgets, and a current benchmark shows that a MediaTek chipset may want to make Chromebooks as fast as they have ever been this yr.
Referencing the GeekBench benchmark, ChromeUnboxed located the modern day ratings of the MediaTek MT8196 chip, which has been mentioned on for some time now. With the chip being housed at the motherboard codenamed ‘Navi,’ the benchmark suggests the chip excelling in unmarried-core and multi-center benchmarks, as well as in GPU, NPU, and a few other tests run.
The guide notes that MediaTek MT8196 is an ARM-based SoC, this is probable a Dimensity 9400 chip reconfigured to paintings on Chromebooks. Typically, the chip is a flagship SoC run on smartphones and pills, and it’s recognized for its velocity. Its largest opposition are chips from the Qualcomm Snapdragon line.
In phrases of other Chromebooks, the MediaTek MT8196 ‘Navi’ tool has beat out all the current quickest Chromebooks, all which run the Intel Core Ultra 7. ChromeUnboxed referred to the Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 714, codenamed ‘Karis’ for instance.
The e-book brought that one hinderance to the MediaTek MT8196 chip supplying the quickest Chromebooks of 2025 might be if devices offering Intel’s Panther Lake release first. There were no benchmarks of the SoC but, so there is no way to know how its energy will fare within the enterprise.
Evenso, Google is likely to start introducing new Chromebooks inside the spring. It may be exciting to affirm fashions and specifications at that point. If the business enterprise continues a launch cycle much like what it did remaining yr, it may host a Chromebook launch inside the fall as well.
There is also word of a tool codenamed ‘Hylia,’ that ChromeUnboxed has been tracking that can desk a tablet shape issue. However, the guide can not affirm whether the Chromebook would possibly run the MediaTek MT8196 chip.
