It would be a great victory for the Taiwanese chipmaker. MediaTek is an Asian company that provides chip for mobile devices "white box" and is also one of the leading providers of smartphone/tablet the most successful Chinese. Until now, the presence of this company in the "developed world" has not done much to hear, but the situation could change soon because Sony, Acer, Lenovo and other companies have adopted the MediaTek chip in their own low-end devices. These could also join Amazon, with a massive order of SoC for the next low-cost Kindle Fire.
The SoC chosen would be a MediaTek MT8135, based on the ARM architecture big.LITTLE, just like the Samsung Exynos Octa, but with "only" four cores (2 Cortex A15 for the most demanding tasks and 2 Cortex A7 for energy saving). Unlike the design of Samsung, however, MediaTek MT8135 allows to simultaneously work the two clusters or in any suitable combination to the workload. This means that when you need to activate only the core A7, saving energy, while for maximum performance must also activate the core A15.
Amazon has chosen MediaTek for the good relationship between price and processor power.The chipmaker produces almost exclusively low-cost processors, while Amazon is trying to maintain its sales prices of the next Kindle Fire, albeit with much higher specifications than the current ones. If the SoC Mediatek MT8135 is intended only for entry-level Kindle Fire (not HD), then we can see it updated this fall along with the HD variants. Maybe Amazon will maintain the current model on sale for a couple of months, and then replace it with the MediaTek-based.
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