MediaTek is rumored to be working on a minor upgrade to its current flagship chipset, the Dimension 9400. Although the upcoming product will be an upgrade over the Dimension 9400, it will not offer significant performance improvements.

Unannounced chip name: Dimensity 9400+, It first appeared late last year, along with some details about its specifications. The reliable digital chat station claims that the Dimensity 9400+ will be equipped with a superior X925 core running at speeds of up to 3.7GHz.

In comparison, the Dimensity 9400 X925 super-core processor runs at 3.63GHz, suggesting that MediaTek’s next flagship chipset will only bring minimal performance improvements.

Same mentor now More information about the Dimensity 9400+ has been leaked, this time touching on the chip’s release window. Apparently, MediaTek is planning to release the new top-tier Dimensity 9400+ chipset sometime in March.

According to Digital Chat Station, the MediaTek Dimensity 9400+ chipset has already been chosen by two major smartphone makers to power their products: Opp and Vivo. Rumors say that the Oppo Find X8S and Vivo X200S will be among the first phones to feature a MediaTek Dimensity 9400+ SoC (system on a chip). Based on these rumours, it appears that MediaTek is trying to take a page from Qualcomm’s book. The US-based chipmaker recently launched a minor upgrade to its flagship chipset called Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 flagship edition. However, the new product has not been adopted by very many players in the smartphone space, so it is unlikely that Qualcomm will try to do this again in the future. Overclocked version from Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 powers RedMagic’s 9S Pro+ briefly dominated AnTuTu’s flagship performance rankings.

The MediaTek 9400+ chipset is expected to become the most powerful smartphone chipset on the market when it launches in March, but the question is whether or not it will convince more than a couple of brands to put it inside their devices.