Editorial Contribution

Client: MediaTek SEA Date: January 2024

Sources: https://www.mediatek.com/blog/november-newsletter-educational-chromebook-news
https://www.mediatek.com/blog/educational-chromebooks-highlights-from-2023
https://www.mediatek.com/products/chromebooks/mediatek-kompanio-520
Author: PC Tseng, General Manager of Intelligent Multimedia Business Unit at MediaTek

Educational Chromebook with MediaTek Kompanio Processors

By PC Tseng, General Manager of Intelligent Multimedia Business Unit at MediaTek

The developments in the educational Chromebook space kept coming. As the No. 1 chipmaker for Arm-
based Chromebooks, MediaTek has played a pivotal role in keeping students and teachers connected for
in-person and virtual learning. MediaTek’s Kompanio series of processors powers the Chromebooks that
students and teachers love. MediaTek is committed to providing students and teachers with stress-free,
productive, and engaging classroom experiences.

Using student Chromebooks powered by MediaTek Kompanio 520 and 528 processors provides students
with exceptional power efficiency, ensuring true all-day battery life. Leveraging octa-core processor
architectures, MediaTek further enhances productivity in multitasking scenarios helping students stay
engaged even when running demanding workloads.

Elevating Entry Performance

The MediaTek Kompanio 520 processor is a significant upgrade to entry Chromebooks, elevating CPU
and graphics performance in everyday activities like web, media, casual gaming, streaming, Google Play
apps and educational activities such as STEM, Tinkercad and Minecraft Education Edition.

Now featuring two, premium Arm Cortex-A76 CPU cores within its octa-core CPU, plus an upgraded
dual-core graphics engine, performance is notably smoother and more responsive. Faster memory and
storage balance the platform with improved data-throughput performance. Users benefit from superfast
start-up times for immediate connectivity, breeze through multitasking with multiple applications, and
take advantage of even longer battery life for all-day use.

Smooth & Detailed Video Streaming

A new-generation imaging processor upgrades performance and improves power efficiency, allowing
device makers to build Chromebooks with large 32MP cameras to capture highly detailed images. Up to
60fps Full HD video recording goes far beyond basic webcam experiences to give more detailed,
smoother, and more natural virtual interactions in online conferencing, remote education, and working
from home.

The cameras are backed by MediaTek’s hardware imaging engine that works behind the scenes to
automatically enhance photo and video capture in all lighting conditions.

More Detailed Displays

With a greater resolution Full HD+ display and the ability to add a Full HD external display – over twice
the resolution of the previous generation – the Kompanio 520 provides a notable boost to dual monitor
productivity, and is more suited for projectors and presentations in work and education. It is ideal for
connecting to smart TVs to play movies, shows and online streams.

Enhanced Multimedia
An upgraded multimedia engine now includes VP9 decoding that’s ideal for YouTube and web video. A
new, dedicated HiFi-5 DSP provides ultra-low power audio microphone processing, whether for video
conferencing interactions, or for device makers to include virtual assistants.

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