Last week in sunny Scottsdale, Arizona MediaTek held its 2024 MediaTek Analyst Day, where the company provided deeper insights into its strategy and business plans. As usual, the event closely followed, which saw significant improvements in revenue, gross margin and operating margins. Much of the day was spent looking into MediaTek’s growing momentum and its vision of the new markets it wants to expand further into. Let’s dig into the different segments that MediaTek covered throughout the day.
This second-generation 5G FWA solution is shipping throughput this year globally with many different operators. MediaTek recently announced customer design wins with AT&T and Verizon with Wi-Fi 7 solutions. MediaTek has also powered older generations of T-Mobile’s FWA solutions and will likely power T-Mobile’s upgraded 5G FWA with Wi-Fi 7, whenever it ships.
MediaTek also called out its competitors’ commercial router solutions, making direct comparisons to their Wi-Fi 7 MLO implementations for backhaul between the router and an extender. MediaTek’s testing found no commercial shipping devices using Broadcom that support MLO functionality, and it found that TP-Link’s Qualcomm-based solution did not support MLO with three bands.
MediaTek sees many applications for the T300, including video security, logistics IoT edge devices, wearables, industrial, CPE and more. MediaTek claims that the T300 has 60% lower power consumption versus 4G IoT solutions and 70% lower power than 5G EMBB solutions using non-IoT modems. MediaTek also claims a 60% smaller core chipset PCB area versus 4G IoT solutions, leading to both lower power consumption and a smaller board area, which is ideal for IoT applications.