Innovation

▌Commitments and Goals

▌Achievements

▌Innovation in practice

Talents

In order to provide user the best flagship experience and build more innovative living solutions, MediaTek has been proactively reorganizing internal Human Resources over the past few years, transferring several hundred R&D and product personnel to key technical and product development fields such as 5G and AI. Through this action we are continuing to work toward a goal of Technology Leadership. For details about the global talent layout, please refer to About MediaTek.


Culture

Since 2002, MediaTek has started to organize the activities including nomination, selection and awards ceremony of the “Special Contribution Award” and “Innovation Award” each year. The Innovation Award and Special Contribution Award (ISCA) refers to the highest honor awarded by the Company for technological innovation, in order to encourage and recognize the efforts contributed by colleagues to the Company.

The Special Contribution Award is divided into two categories, namely Project/Product and Operation. The Innovation Award is focused on acknowledging the contribution of the vital few. Teams and individuals were selected and honored after a rigorous evaluation process. MediaTek encourages employees to take part in internal and external events and forums, to motivate, inspire, and intensify their engagement in innovation and invention.

International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)

The ISSCC is the world’s largest, most prestigious, and highest-standard conference on solid-state circuits, with thousands of talents from the academia and industry participating in the grand event every year. In 2024, ISSCC selected and published 4 papers from the MediaTek Group. Since 2004, MediaTek has had papers accepted by the Conference for 21 years in a row, 95 in total, testifying the Company’s extraordinary technological and innovative strength.

Patent Strategies and Establishment of Industry
Specifications

Since its inception, innovation has been the cornerstone of MediaTek’s daily operation. In order to safeguard its precious R&D results, consolidate its global competitiveness, and sustain its technological leadership in key areas, the company formulated an intellectual property (IP) management plan based on its business goals, with an aim to oer clients worldwide top-of-the-line products and services and pursue leadership in the industry through the mean of “Global Operations, Local Practice”.

▌Innovation Achievements

  • MediaTek is dedicated to enhancing and enriching everyone's life. Despite significant advancements in communication technology, billions of people worldwide have yet to experience its benefits. To address this, MediaTek implements the 3A strategy—Accessibility, Aordability, and Availability. By putting this strategy into practice, we enable everyone to seize opportunities that stem from access to technology.


  • In welcoming an AI era, MediaTek, relying on its solid expertise and rich experience in the fields including edge computing, has engaged in diversified development and also achieved outstanding performance in multiple fields including smart edge devices, smart cars, and smart homes. We are committed to taking advantage of our leading edge AI computing and hybrid AI computing technologies to build a brand new and full-scenario smart experience for our users, promote the popularization of innovative applications of generative AI, help the advanced technology benefit a wider range of people and empower all walks of life. In 2023, MediaTek, relying on its innovative all-big-core architecture design, created the new flagship 5G SoC Dimensity 9300 mobile chipset for the mobile market and brought the flagship new experience to the mobile communications market in terms of on-device generative AI, gaming, camera and display, etc..


  • In 2022, MediaTek released the first version of “6G Vision White Paper”, and also gave birth to the world’s first 5G satellite communications smartphone series. In 2023, MediaTek also presented the “6G Satellite and Terrestrial Network Convergence White Paper”. In the future, it will take advantage of the compatibility and complementation of satellite network and terrestrial network to build a 3D area covering all terrains and spaces, including land, sea and sky, and to provide users with seamless synergy tech communication services.


Green IC Innovation

MediaTek's core technology lies in IC design, with our chips being widely used in diverse applications. We prioritize environmental sustainability from the IC design stage, aiming to reduce energy consumption during use and minimize product size for end-of-life. Through chip system architecture adjustments, algorithm optimization, and the rapid adoption of advanced manufacturing processes, we reduced energy consumption of major products by 18% in 2023 compared to 2022. 

This resulted in an annual energy savings of 360 million kWh and a reduction of 177,840 metric tons of CO2eNote 1, equivalent to the carbon sequestration of 461 Daan Forest ParksNote 2 . Additionally, we reduced the size of major products by 11% in 2023, cutting waste by 16,830 kg and reducing CO2e emissions by 35 metric tons.Note 3.

 

Note 1: This calculation adopts the 2023 electricity emission factor of 0.494 kgCO2e/kWh published by the Bureau of Energy, Ministry of Economic Aairs.

Note 2: This calculation refers to the National Wetland Carbon Sequestration Surveys and Analysis Plan issued by Urban and Rural Development Branch, Construction and Planning Agency, Ministry of the Interior (Daan Forest Park absorbs approximately 386 metric tons CO2e annually).

Note 3: The conversion is based on the parameters set by the Environmental Protection Administration of Taiwan, where the reduction of waste production by 1KG may help reduce the carbon emission by 2.06kg