These are new additions to the Genio series and support the latest generative AI models, human machine interface (HMI), multimedia, and connectivity features for smart home, retail, industrial, and commercial IoT devices.
The Genio 720 and Genio 520 enable up to 10 TOPS with a built-in MediaTek 8th-generation Neural Processing Unit (NPU) offering full hardware acceleration for transformer and convolutional neural network (CNN) models.
In addition, both the Genio 720 and Genio 520 offer enhanced memory performance with up to 16GB of LPDDR5 memory to support data-intensive edge-optimised large language models (LLMs) such as Llama, Gemini, Phi and DeepSeek, and accelerate generative AI tasks.
Backed by MediaTek’s global AI ecosystem, developers can leverage global language models and common frameworks to efficiently deploy multi-modal generative AI applications and bring products to market faster.
“The Genio 720 and Genio 520 will unleash a new era of IoT innovation with powerful yet efficient generative AI capabilities on-device, offering a seamless user experience that also ensures data privacy,” said CK Wang, General Manager of the IoT Business Group at MediaTek. “With our partnership with Nvidia to integrate the TAO Toolkit for Edge AI applications, developers can scale their designs across different products and form factors, from smart retail displays to sophisticated industrial HMI applications.”
Built on a 6nm process node, Genio 720 and Genio 520 integrate an octa-core CPU with two Arm Cortex-A78 processors and six Cortex-A55 processors. These highly efficient IoT platforms have been designed for low-power usage, making them suitable for mobile devices requiring fanless enclosures and battery-powered operation.
With a range of advanced multimedia features, Genio 720 and Genio 520 are suitable for commercial displays, smart retail devices, HMI applications, and other multi-window or interactive applications. The unified hardware and software design of these IoT platforms makes it easy for developers to write once, run everywhere, while also offering the opportunity for customization to meet specific application needs.
Genio 720/520 also supports OSM (Open Standard Module) with reference designs that ensure power and signal integrity, which greatly shortens users’ development cycle in OSM. MediaTek partners plan to launch OSM solutions based on Genio 720/520 in the second half of the year, which can accelerate time-to-market for many applications.
The Genio 720 and Genio 520 platforms will be sampling to customers starting in Q2 2025.
