How MediaTek’s Dimensity 5G Open Resource Architecture is unlocking smartphone innovation | 91mobiles.com

For the past few years, MediaTek has been dominating the chipset scene based solely on innovation. The company’s focus on providing high-end chipsets for OEMs has allowed the latter to provide end-users with a myriad of experiences that were not possible before. Adding one more feather to the company’s cap is the MediaTek Dimensity 5G Open Resource Architecture. Put simply, this platform gives OEMs access to specific aspects of a chipset, enabling them to customise them according to their preference. As a result, despite using the same chipset, two different manufacturers can offer completely distinguished devices with different display features, cameras attributes, AI abilities, and more. Here, we take a look at how MediaTek Dimensity 5G Open Resource Architecture is unlocking innovations for smartphone manufacturers.

MediaTek Dimensity 5G Open Resource Architecture: unlocking customised consumer experiences

It’s an understatement to say that chipset design is a costly and highly technical process. That’s why most OEMs depend on companies like MediaTek to provide the chipsets that power their smartphones, and they have little to no say in the chipset customisation. At least that is what used to happen before MediaTek changed the dynamics with its MediaTek Dimensity 5G Open Resource Architecture platform. The Dimensity 5G open resource architecture gives smartphone brands closer-to-metal access to customise features for cameras, displays, graphics, artificial intelligence (AI) processing units (APUs), sensors, and connectivity sub-systems.

The platform allows smartphone manufacturers to collaborate with MediaTek to customise the chipset to deliver unique smartphone experiences that stand out. When MediaTek launched this program a few months back, we were not sure how smartphone brands will utilise this platform. But in just a few months, brands like OnePlus and vivo are already utilising this platform to deliver a customised experience to end-users while using the same chipset. With that said, let’s see real-world examples of smartphones that are using customised chipsets based on the MediaTek Dimensity 5G Open Resource Architecture platform.

MediaTek Dimensity 5G Open Resource Architecture: OnePlus Nord 2 and Vivo x70 Pro 5G

OnePlus and vivo have been at the forefront of exploiting this innovation. The OnePlus Nord 2 and the vivo X70 Pro 5G are prime examples of how two phones with the same MediaTek Dimensity 1200 chipset can offer completely distinguished user experiences. They have utilised the SoC in different ways and given unique names to their customised chips to differentiate them from the regular MediaTek Dimensity 1200. While the one inside the OnePlus Nord 2 is called MediaTek Dimensity 1200-AI, the one at the heart of the vivo X70 Pro 5G is called the MediaTek Dimensity 1200-vivo chipset.

The MediaTek Dimensity 1200 is already the darling of manufacturers wanting to provide flagship experiences to buyers. The 5G-capable chip has proved its mettle by delivering blazing fast speeds and a host of other exceptional features. With the addition of the MediaTek Dimensity 5G Open Resource Architecture, it’s as if it gets enhanced potential.

With the OnePlus Nord 2, the MediaTek Dimensity 1200-AI has allowed OnePlus to harness the incredible AI capabilities of the chip to deliver a slew of AI-based display and camera features. Among them is AI Colour Boost. It uses context-awareness to detect what’s playing on the screen and then converts standard dynamic range content to high dynamic range content.

And then there’s AI Resolution Boost, another OnePlus feature that’s made possible by the MediaTek Dimensity 5G Open Resource Architecture. It utilises AI to automatically enhance low-resolution videos to HD resolution on popular social media apps. The OnePlus Nord 2’s Smart Ambient Display trait is another such example. It utilises AI to dynamically control the brightness of the screen-based not only on lighting conditions but also on the content displayed on the screen. Here, OnePlus has beautifully used the MediaTek Dimensity 5G Open Resource Architecture to make sure all the users of its phone benefit from an advanced user experience.

And there’s more! OnePlus has also harnessed the Dimensity 5G Open Resource Architecture for enhancing the camera capabilities of the OnePlus Nord 2. A trait called AI Photo Enhancement allows the phone’s camera to recognise 22 unique photography scenarios and adjust the colour tones and contrast to produce the best results. More interesting is AI Video Enhancements, which adds HDR effects in real-time during video recording. It does that with the help of DOL-HDR technology, which enables better shadow detail and highlight retention to enhance the dynamic range.

The vivo X70 Pro 5G is a phone that uses the same MediaTek Dimensity 1200 chipset for offering a completely different set of camera experiences. vivo has tweaked the ISP and APU onboard the chipset for it to be able to better handle the camera features it wanted to introduce. An added benefit of this turned out to be the fact that the phone got a 30 per cent performance boost while consuming less power.

All this while enabling exciting features like Super Night Mode, Astro Mode, and Pro Sports Mode. The tweaked ISP benefits from what’s called Hybrid Precision Calculation. It uses training techniques and interference logic in vivo’s Super Night Mode to offer mixed precision calculations in RAW domain image quality reconstruction and noise processing. The result is stunning low-light images that take your night photography game to the next level. The MediaTek Dimensity 5G Open Resource Architecture has also allowed vivo to introduce a new WARP Engine to capture 4K 60fps videos with minimal power use, thus keeping the smartphone cool and enhancing its battery life.

The MediaTek Dimensity 1200-AI onboard the OnePlus Nord 2 and the MediaTek Dimensity 1200-vivo onboard the vivo X70 Pro 5G are based on the same chipset. It is the MediaTek Dimensity 5G Open Resource Architecture that enabled the OEMs to tailor the SoCs to their liking. This kind of hardware-level access was unheard of in the past, and that’s what makes it a game-changing innovation from MediaTek.

MediaTek Dimensity 5G Open Resource Architecture: an exciting future ahead

The MediaTek Dimensity 5G Open Resource Architecture opens up a bevvy of possibilities for OEMs to explore. And this makes us excited for the future. In a market that tends to get stale due to phones with the same chipsets offering similar features, the MediaTek Dimensity 5G Open Resource Architecture offers a promise of customisability and freshness that was not possible before. We can’t wait to see more manifestations of this incredible feature.