MediaTek introduces Dimensity 9400+ powered by revolutionary AI capabilities

MediaTek hosted the highly-anticipated MDDC 2025 Dimensity Developer Conference, with the theme “AI on the chip, applications without boundaries.” In this high-profile event, the company officially released the Dimensity 9400+, an enhanced flagship mobile chip to power next-gen AI experiences. In addition to the chip, they launched the Dimensity Intelligent Experience Pilot Program, the Dimensity Development Toolset, and the Dimensity AI Development Kit 2.0. All these developments are set to revolutionize the mobile AI landscape. As Xiaomi continues its AI-fuelled transformation in HyperOS and smart hardware, this partnership with MediaTek represents an important milestone. If you are keeping track with the latest HyperOS developments, read our comprehensive HyperOS 2 coverage.

A New Wave of Smart AI is on the Horizon

Mediatek General Manager and COO Chen Guanzhou underscored the expanding role of AI by asserting that smart AI is increasingly the foundation of the user experience. As more than 2 billion edge devices ship out yearly, Mediatek’s mission is to democratize AI by integrating it into user interactions directly. The Dimensity Intelligent Body Experience Pilot Program, introduced in association with Xiaomi, OPPO, vivo, Motorola, Honor, Microsoft, and others, will assist developers and global partners in driving AI innovation from the ground level up.

Powerful tools for next-generation development

The newest Dimensity Development Toolset brings intuitive visual AI development to the table. It contains:

Neuron Studio for comprehensive AI application workflow evaluation
Dimensity Profiler to provide performance diagnostics streamlined

They enable cross-model neural network tuning, accelerating the development process and reducing its energy footprint.

Dimensity AI Development Kit 2.0 makes its debut

The enhanced AI Development Kit 2.0 offers access to an expanded Gen-AI Model Hub, with support for global model types and an open-source elastic model architecture to deploy custom models. It combines DeepSeek’s foundational technologies:

MoE hybrid model experts
MTP multi-token prediction
MLA multi-head attention
Inference on FP8 data format

They provide 2x faster token generation and 50% lower memory bandwidth utilization.

Xiaomi’s role and future prospects

One of its major partners, Xiaomi, will utilize this AI toolkit to make its future smartphone and HyperOS AI capabilities more intelligent and user behavior-adaptive than ever before. The tools are in line with Xiaomi’s overall vision to develop an AI-enabled world that ranges from phones to smart homes.

Source: ITHome