The chipmaker is stepping away from its Helios development for "a bit" after a tepid response to its X30. Instead, the company will focus on new premium devices, although no details were offered.
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Chinese manufacturer Vernee will launch the world's first handset to feature MediaTek's new range-topping Helio X30 SoC. The Apollo 2 will also have up to 128GB of storage, and a whopping 8GB of RAM.
MediaTek has announced the newest edition to the Helio X series of chipsets, the Helio X30. The chip comes with a huge 10 cores, none of which operate under 2.0 GHz. It'll launch Q1 2017.