S900 (MT9950)
The MediaTek S900 is a high performance SoC for 8KTV’s with industry-leading features. Designed for TV manufacturers create highly competitive flagship products, the S900 integrates a mix of high performance compute units including, multi-core CPU, GPU, a dedicated AI processing unit (APU) and display controller that can directly drive the 8K display. A hardware-based AV1 video decoder is also included, embracing the latest video compression standard for up to 8K streaming video.
AI Enhancements
The powerful 1.6 TOPS AI processing unit provides AI enhanced features including AI-PQ (picture quality) enhancements. MediaTek’s AI-PQ enables real-time recognition during of people and scene types during the video stream, then automatically adjusts color saturation, brightness, sharpness, dynamic motion compensation and picture noise to provide the best quality settings.
As industry leaders in voice assistant devices (VADs), brands can add up to four directional microphones and use our AI voice technologies for integrated voice assistants, allowing users to directly engage with their smart TV, controlling its functions or other home IoT integration.
ATSC 3.0 Support
MediaTek leads the industry with the most comprehensive global demod hardware built-in, including support for the latest ATSC 3.0 in North America.
Great for Movies & Gaming
The S900 platform supports HDMI 2.1a up to 48Gbps, providing enough bandwidth to deliver 4K at 120Hz or 8K at 60Hz plus advanced HDR10+ color depth at 4:4:4 chroma. HDMI VRR support enables variable refresh rate panels to match movies or console gaming frame-rates in order to avoid screen tearing. The S900 even supports external peripheral add-on so brands can customize the platform for differentiation.
Specifications
Processors
CPU Type
Arm Cortex-A73
CPU Bit
64-bit
CPU Cores
Quad (4)
Max CPU Frequency
1.8GHz
GPU Type
Arm Mali-G52 MC2
Max GPU Frequency
800MHz
Memory
96-bit LPDDR4
Memory Frequency
Up to 3700MHz
Max Memory
8.5GB
Demod
Demod
ATSC, ATSC 3.0, DTMB, DVB-T/T2/S/S2/S2X/C/C2, ISDB-T
Display
Max Display Resolution
3840 x 2160 (4K), 7680 x 4320 (8K)
HDR Standards
BBC HLG, HDR10 (SMPTE2084), Dolby Vision HDR, Technicolor/Philips JHDR (ESTI TS 103 433), HDR10+
Video Decoding
HEVC: 8K@60Hz, VP9: 8K@30, H.264: 8K@30Hz, AV1: 8K@30Hz, AVS2: 4K@60Hz
Max Refresh Rate
120Hz
Interfaces
Interfaces
HDMI 2.0/1.4 with HDCP 2.2, HDMI 2.1a, PCI-Express, USB 2.0, USB 3.0
Audio
Audio Decoding
Dolby Atmos, DTS Master HD, DTS Virtual X
Microphones
4X Directional Mic
AI
Integrated AI Processor
Yes
Max Performance
1.6TOPS
AI Voice
Cortex-M4 with DSP
MediaTek Technologies
Unique & Brand Features
MEMC 4K120Hz, AI-PQ, AI-SR, AI-Voice