Earlier this week, Media Tek announced its latest flagship chipset – the Dimensity 9600 Pro and it turns out that’s not the only new So C from the maker. The Dimensity 9600 M is an upcoming chip that’s bringing some software and AI features from the 9600 Pro to a broader segment of flagship phones. From a hardware perspective, the 9600 M is essentially a repackaged Dimensity 9500, fabbed on TSMC’s 3nm N3P process with identical components.

It gets the same all-large-core CPU with a max frequency of 4.21GHz on the C1-Ultra core. The same applies to the Arm Mali-G1 Ultra MC12 GPU and the APU 990 NPU, which are unchanged. Specification Dimensity 9600 MNode3nm CPU prime1x Arm C1-Ultra (2MB L2 cache)CPU middle3x Arm C1-Premium (1MB L2 cache)CPU small4x Arm C1-Pro (512KB L2 cache)L3 cache16MBSLC10MBRAMLPDDR5X 10667 Storage UFS 4.1 (4-lane)GPUArm Mali-G1 Ultra MC12NPUMedia Tek NPU 990 (Generative AI, Agentic AI)Modem3GPP-R17, Sub-6GHz (FR1), 2G-5G multi-mode, 5G-CA, 4G-CA, 5G FDD / TDD, 4G FDD / TDD, TD-SCDMA, WDCDMA, EDGE, GSMGNSSGPS L1CA+L5+L1C, Bei Dou B1I + B1C + B2a + B2b, Glonass L1OF, Galileo E1 + E5a + E5b, QZSS L1CA + L5, Nav IC L5 + L1Wi-Fi Wi-Fi 7 (a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be), Triple Band Triple Concurrency (TBTC), Up to 7.3Gbps Bluetooth6.0 with dual Bluetooth engine, Up to 12Mbps Camera320MP max sensor supported Video8K60 (7680 x 4320), 4K120 with EIS, 4K60 cinematic mode Display WQHD+ 180Hz, Tri-port MIPI for Tri-Fold Displays The 9600 M does get Media Tek’s latest Agentic AI Engine and Dimensity Scheduling Engine, making it more capable for AI tasks.

The first Dimensity 9600 M phones are expected to launch later this quarter, with the vivo X500 and Oppo Find X10 expected to be among the first devices to reach the market. Source.