MediaTek launches dimensity 9500, Eyes India as growth engine

Taiwan-based semiconductor company MediaTek announced its latest Dimensity 9500 chipset, underlining its strong presence and growth prospects in the Indian market.

Anku Jain, Managing Director of MediaTek, highlighted the company's 47% market share in India’s smartphone segment and its leadership across other verticals including smart TVs, routers, and Chromebooks. He added, “We had a very busy day with the announcement of our Dimensity 9500 chipset. We are a chip design company, a semiconductor company, and we design chipsets for several verticals like smartphones, smart TVs, routers, and Chromebooks. In fact, smartphones have 47% market share in India.

He also discussed the rapidly evolving semiconductor ecosystem in India, attributing growth to the government’s Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme, which has already resulted in the announcement of 10 new products.

“I think the semiconductor ecosystem is really developing now in India. In fact, 10 products have already been announced based on the PLI scheme. However, as you said, there are certainly some constraints. I would say that the constraints are things like skilled manpower. So I think overall I feel the momentum has really picked up in the last 2-3 years, and we are looking at the next 10-20 years kind of a roadmap for India,” Jain said.

Jain further emphasised MediaTek’s role as a leading design firm partnering with manufacturers rather than directly producing semiconductors. He highlighted the company’s advancements in satellite communication, announcing chipsets for Internet of Things – Non-Terrestrial Network (IoT-NTN) and New Radio – Non-Terrestrial Network (NR-NTN) applications.

“But all this is very exciting for MediaTek as well because although MediaTek is a fabulous design company, we don't manufacture; that is done by our partners, but it is great to see the ecosystem getting developed in India. For SATCOM, we have already announced our chipsets for IoT-NTN and NR-NTN,” he said.

Expressing confidence in India’s growth potential, Jain stated, “MediaTek is a Taiwan-based company, headquartered in Taiwan and in India we have engineering centres here. I think India is a very big growth engine and that's the reason that MediaTek is very bullish on the Indian market.”

The Dimensity 9500 chipset announcement reflects MediaTek’s continued focus on India as a key market, leveraging the country’s expanding semiconductor ecosystem and strategic government initiatives.