Realme Mobile eyes boost from MediaTek tie-up By Lisa Wang / Staff reporter Chinese smartphone company Realme Mobile Telecommunications (Shenzhen) Co (銳爾覓移動通信) adopted MediaTek Inc’s (聯發科) 5G chips for its new smartphones launched in Taiwan yesterday in a joint effort to expand their share of the 5G smartphone market. Realme’s new flagship model, the Realme X7 Pro, is equipped with MediaTek’s 5G system-on-a-chip (SoC) Dimensity 1000+, the latest premium SoC from the Taiwanese chip designer. The Dimensity 1000+ is also used in Xiaomi Corp’s (小米) Remi K30 Ultra and Vivo Communication Technology Co’s (維沃) IQOO Z1 in China, as MediaTek aims to grab a 50 percent share of China’s 5G smartphone chip market.