I’m starting too see more and more mainstream manufacturers use new Mediatek SOCs in their phones, I always heard about them being inefficient, did those got better nowadays?
not until they post kernel sources.
Custom ROMs are limited due to closed nature. Make sure whatever you want to load on it explicitly supports the chip before you buy, of that’s your thing.
I don’t have much comparison but the last 2 mid-range phones I bought used them and I can’t complain. I think they have the benefit of being cheap and also easy to use, putting lineage on my phone is pretty easy now compared to how it was with Qualcomm based Samsung
I don’t know if they came up with a new design but they are basically budget option and they are basically cheaper than Qualcomm budget option SOCs (700, 600 series) while delivering same or similar performance/battery life. This and the chip shortages is why they are getting adopted more and more by the mainstream manufacturers these days.
They haven’t been bad for a while now and actually can be quite compitive compared to Qualcomm. Qualcomm had to step up its game because of good Mediatek SOCs.
