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Not long ago, MediaTek released a new generation of Tianji 9200 + flagship 5G mobile platform, with a strong upgrade on the basis of Tianji 9200 platform, a breakthrough in flagship performance, an equally excellent energy efficiency performance, and a family bucket of game technology. let us see what the top mobile game platform should look like, the mobile game experience is really about to usher in a big change.

When it comes to the game experience, I believe you can also feel that the Tianji 9200 + platform takes the game technology and the game experience as the key upgrade direction. This point has also been verified in the interview and exchange between MediaTek and us.

At present, the global mobile game is in full swing, MediaTek's investment in the mobile game experience is undoubtedly a strategic vision to meet the needs of the market and consumers. Of course, promoting the development of mobile game ecology requires the cooperation of chip manufacturers, game developers and mobile terminal manufacturers, and it is obviously not enough to rely on flagship chip hardware alone. In the communication with MediaTek, we also learned more about MediaTek's progress in the field of mobile games and its efforts in building game ecology.

Mobile games have become the most commercially valuable application scenario for smartphones over the past three years, the number of downloads of mobile games around the world has been increasing. Nearly 90 billion mobile games have been downloaded worldwide in 2022, an increase of about 6.7 billion over 2021 and 22 billion over 2019, indicating that mobile users are very concerned about the experience of mobile games, especially on high-end phones. The game track has become a "battleground" in the mobile phone market. As a forerunner in the mobile chip industry, MediaTek actively participated in all kinds of technological innovation in the game experience in the upper and lower reaches of the ecological chain, and undoubtedly made the right move.

Dr. Li Yanji, deputy general manager of MediaTek's wireless communications division, said, "We think that every flagship mobile phone should have a good game experience, and the concept of game mobile phone is inseparable from that of flagship mobile phone."

At the same time, Zhang Li, senior director of ecological development in MediaTek's wireless communications division, believes that games are a long-standing application scenario, and mobile games can take advantage of consumers' fragmented time, so on mobile devices, the demand for games is getting stronger and stronger. It can be seen that this certainty is also the reason why mobile games are getting more and more attention from the industry.

Since the current and future mobile game experience is so important, how can MediaTek, as a leading mobile chip manufacturer, make use of its own advantages to help upgrade and evolve the mobile game experience?

Two critical paths: technology and ecology.

The foundation of advanced technology is to lay a good foundation for the construction of game ecology. in the field of mobile games, the hottest and most anticipated technology is mobile light pursuit. MediaTek is one of the earliest promoters of the landing and popularization of mobile light pursuit technology. They have been carrying out the technology reserve of mobile light pursuit and laying out the RayQuery scheme since 2020. In 2021, Mobile Light pursuit SDK was officially released, and the first demonstration of Mobile Light pursuit was realized together with Arm and Tencent Games. In the same year, MediaTek took the lead in supporting mobile ray tracing twin engines on Tianji 9000.

In 2022, Tianji 9200 chip has become one of the first chip platforms to support hardware-level mobile light pursuit, and MediaTek has also become a pioneer in the landing of mobile light pursuit technology, which is a milestone for both the mobile phone industry and the mobile game industry.

With the support of hardware technology, MediaTek is also actively working with game manufacturers, so that players can experience the charm of mobile light pursuit faster and more. For example, when Tianji 9200 was released, MediaTek announced that it had successfully joined forces with "Dark area Breakthrough" to achieve the light-chasing effect of the mobile game.

In addition, on the vivo X90 and vivo X90 Pro with Tianji 9200, players of "Tianyi" mobile games can also feel the super-real visual experience brought by mobile light pursuit technology. Now, Tianji 9200 + not only improves the performance of light chase again, but also reduces power consumption by 10% when running heavy-duty light chase games such as "Tianyi" mobile games.

What the whole ecology needs to do is to invest heavily in self-research technology and open cooperation to enable the rapid development of Guangchu ecology and promote the migration of PC game experience to the mobile end.

Speaking of which, Dr. Li Yanji also said that MediaTek is also constantly exploring how other PC-level game technologies can gradually land on mobile platforms. But they will also think from the perspective of user scenarios and developer ecology of the mobile platform, fully consider the balance between performance and power consumption, and actively plan and invest in new game technologies on this basis.

Of course, in addition to light pursuit and other PC-level game technology, the Tianji 9200 + game engine relying on MediaTek HyperEngine 6.0also carries a series of mobile technology sets that can improve the terminal game experience.

Of course, before that, we still have to talk about the upgrade of Tianji 9200 + in the specific performance and energy efficiency of CPU and GPU, which is the basis of everything.

To put it simply, compared with Tianji 9200, the performance improvement of performance core and energy efficiency core reached 10% and 11% respectively. The peak frequency of the 11-core GPU Immortalis-G715 can be increased by 17%. The excellent performance and energy efficiency can meet the needs of users to run mobile games and complex applications smoothly. The foundation of the game is excellent.

While the performance of CPU and GPU has soared, the rare thing about Tianji 9200 + is that energy efficiency is also well controlled. According to MediaTek, this mobile platform can easily gain 20% power consumption advantage in light and medium load head games, and heavy light pursuit games can also achieve 10% power consumption advantage, which is definitely a benefit for gamers.

On this basis, a series of technologies of HyperEngine 6.0game engine also have better room to play. For example, MediaTek's exclusive MediaTek game adaptive regulation technology (MAGT) can schedule system resources more intelligently and reasonably, reduce power consumption and improve battery life. MediaTek said that after the introduction of game adaptive regulation and control technology (MAGT), the power consumption of mobile games on mobile terminals can be reduced by up to 12%, so that players do not have to worry about mobile phone battery life when playing head games with increasing load.

Another example is variable rate rendering technology (VRS), which dynamically adjusts the rendering magnification of different visual areas to improve game performance. Taking the game Diablo: immortal as an example, the introduction of this technology can reduce power consumption by 13% under the extremely high picture quality settings of 60FPS and 960p.

The MediaTek HyperEngine game engine also includes smart screen power savers, which can tune the picture quality frame by frame, reducing power consumption and reducing screen power consumption by 10% while maintaining the original visual experience.

For the game experience, hardware performance, power consumption and related technologies are the foundation. Just like cooking a delicacy, MediaTek has prepared all kinds of ingredients, and then chefs need to use advanced cooking tools to exert their talents before they can finally make delicious dishes. This process depends on the construction of ecology.

Ecology is the best soil for innovation and the foundation of mobile game ecological construction, which is the shortest path for technology landing. In fact, it still lies in the majority of developers. MediaTek is obviously aware of this, so with the release of the Tianji 9200 + platform, MediaTek announced that the Tianji developer Center will soon be launched to provide platform support for developers. It will provide developers with a full range of development resources, including ray tracing, VRS, MAGT and other technologies, to help developers make better use of these new technologies.

Of course, before that, MediaTek has been uniting a large number of developers. Just last month, for example, they also held "Tianji developer Day-Action chasing Light" in four cities for mobile light pursuit technology.

Zhang Li said, "in this year's Tianji developer Day, there are more than they expected, a large number of developers are very interested in light pursuit technology. In the process of communicating with mobile developers, they often lament their independent innovation and creativity. Developers apply mobile light to many aspects of the game, not only the rendering of the scene, but also the close-up of the characters. there are not only scenes within the game scene, but also scenes outside the game board, and even not only games. Many developers are trying to apply light pursuit to the interactive experience of some applications, such as augmented reality and so on. "

This interactive process enables MediaTek to gain a deeper understanding of the concerns of developers, while at the same time integrating itself more closely and fully with the mobile game ecology, bringing the latest technologies and experiences to the ecology at a faster speed.

This means that MediaTek will take Tianji flagship platform as the center to build a complete mobile game "Tianji ecosystem", bringing more industry forerunners together to integrate ecological forces to accelerate technological innovation and landing. It is not difficult to foresee that under the active promotion of MediaTek, the mobile game ecology will enter an unprecedented active period, and players will have the opportunity to feel the game experience "Great Leap forward" brought about by advanced technology and cooperation in the next few years.

At the same time, MediaTek is also achieving gratifying results in terms of technological ecology.

Since 2020, MediaTek has been gradually building and improving the MediaTek mobile game technology ecosystem. For example, in the layout of the underlying chip technology, MediaTek has paved the ground for the growth of game ecology by actively supporting 64-bit application ecology and Vulkan ecology. At the same time, there are a series of self-developed technologies such as game super-scoring technology (Game AI-SR) and variable rate rendering (VRS) to consolidate the foundation of game ecology.

In terms of upper-level technology, such as the game adaptive regulation and control technology (MAGT) mentioned earlier, its ecosystem continues to expand, including terminal manufacturers such as vivo, OPPO, iQOO, one plus, as well as game developers such as Tencent Games and Thunder Fire, have joined the Tianji ecosystem. Head games such as "call of Duty" and "Arena of Valor" have been introduced into this technology, bringing real improvements to players in terms of experience.

As Dr. Li Yanji said: "MediaTek is a participant and explorer of the mobile gaming technology ecology, and we hope to be a leader next. The top performance and energy efficiency of Tianji flagship platform, coupled with the layout of the game technology ecology, constitute a new generation of gaming experience, through full-link gaming technology to upgrade the player experience."

Conclusion in the annual iteration of the flagship chip, there must be a breakthrough innovation, in order to obtain the recognition of the flagship terminal and the market, in order to stand firm in the high-end market.

With the release of Tian Ji 9200 +, we can see MediaTek's clear strategic layout and firm confidence in the field of mobile games. The development of game technology is an important technical track for MediaTek in the future, which has been set as the development goal of MediaTek in the next three to five years.

Of course, this will be an ongoing and huge challenge as users' demand for mobile game quality, frame rate, long range and immersive experience escalates. However, the upgrading of the game experience and the overall development of the mobile game market are also moving forward in overcoming such challenges one by one.

Top performance and energy efficiency, coupled with the layout of the game technology ecology, constitute a new generation of game experience, through full-link game technology to upgrade the player experience, in this path, become the forerunner of MediaTek, is moving towards the leader step by step.

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