MediaTek Dimensity 9400e unleashed as a flagship-grade chipset for sub-premium phones

MediaTek has now announced its newest chipset, the Dimensity 9400e. The Dimensity 9400e joins its siblings, the Dimensity 9400 and Dimensity 9400+, at the highest level of MediaTek's lineup for the year but is actually intended to be used on sub-premium devices—some of which are slated to launch later this month.

Unlike the other Dimensity 9400 series, the new Dimensity 9400e is built on TSMC's 4nm process. It features an adventurous 4+4 configuration, with four Cortex-X4 cores (a prime core at 3.4 GHz, and three at 2.85 GHz), and four Cortex-A720 cores clocked at up to 2.0 GHz. On the GPU side is ARM''s Immortalis-G720 MP12.

Other features of the Dimensity 9400e include MediaTek's Adaptive Gaming Technology (MAGT 2.0), MediaTek Frame Rate Converter (MFRC 2.0+), MediaTek's latest NeuroPilot SDK for on-device operation of DeepSeek-R1-Distill LLM models, and others. Effectively better gaming and AI performance. Connectivity-wise, the Dimensity 9400e is said to offer sub-6GHz 4CC-CA download speeds of up to 7 Gbps, and Wi-Fi 7 speeds of up to 7.3 Gbps.

The new Dimensity 9400e is a close relative to last year's Dimensity 9300+ which powered the Xiaomi 14T Pro (buy on Amazon), and somewhat mirrors the relationship between Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. Both Dimensity chipsets feature the same core configuration, Immortalis GPU, and identical network specifications.