MediaTek Kompanio 528: Powering Chromebooks and more…

Chromebooks are seeing an upward trend in terms of their usage and this is because of their several advantages over laptops. Yeah, having a Chromebook can offer you several benefits such as:

• Chromebooks are light in weight and extremely compact, so they are highly portable and easy to carry.
• They boot up much faster than other devices. Your laptop might take some time to start working after powering on, but in Chromebooks, you can start working in seconds.
• Chromebooks have much better battery life than laptops. Many Chromebooks can last as much as 16 hours on a single charge, unlike laptops that work mostly for 4 to 5 hours only, on average.
• Chromebooks are much cheaper than laptops and you need to invest only half as much as you invest in a laptop to get a Chromebook.

And these are the major reasons why some of the chip brands such as MediaTek have launched specific Chromebook chips for the users. A few weeks back, MediaTek launched a couple of mid-range smart Chromebook chips and these were the MediaTek Kompanio 520 and MediaTek Kompanio 528 chips.

Here, let us get an idea about the new MediaTek Kompanio 528 and the features it contains to offer you a great Chromebook experience:

MediaTek Kompanio 528:

As per the brand, MediaTek Kompanio 528 is like an upgrade to the low-cost Chromebooks and it has an elevated CPU and GPU performance which could be useful for activities such as browsing the web, gaming, streaming videos, and even in online education.

So MediaTek Kompanio 528 is a powerful Chromebook chip and has some really good features as well. Here are some of the major features of this powerful platform that you must know;

• MediaTek Kompanio 528 has a powerful octa-core CPU which has two sets of cores. There are 2 x Arm Cortex-A76 cores that are clocked up to 2.2GHz and there are 6 x Arm Cortex-A55 cores that are clocked up to 2GHz. The CPU section of the chip is actually quite powerful for the buyers.
• The smart chip supports LPDDR4x type memory that has a max memory frequency of 3733Mbps and it also has eMMC 5.1 storage type that contains hardware command queue and this is again an interesting aspect in the device.
• It contains an ARM Mali-G52 MC2-type GPU that promises really good graphics and can support your gaming needs as well. Besides, you get up to 60Hz display refresh rate for your devices along with a display resolution support of 2520 x 1080. And not to forget that this chip is already capable of offering Full HD+ displays with an added Full HD external display. This is a great boost to the productivity of the monitor and you can expect great results with presentations and projectors. In fact, you can also connect your smart TV to it for online shows and movies, etc.
• Talking about the audio support with the devices, you can expect powerful Hi-Fi 5 DSP support and this is also a good addition to the chip.
• If you look at the connectivity specs of the chip, MediaTek Kompanio 528 offers you up to Wi-Fi 6 support because of the MediaTek Filogic Wi-Fi 6 options. Besides, you can expect some good USB support options as well with your devices.

So MediaTek Kompanio 528 is actually a smart Chromebook chip that is meant to offer powerful performances at reasonably low costs and you can expect some really good devices with it very soon. What do you think about this smart Mediatek chip for Chromebooks?