MediaTek today introduced its newest chipset for smart TVs, the MT5670.

The highly integrated chipset lets consumer electronics manufacturers build feature-rich 4K Ultra High Definition (UHD) digital TVs at affordable price points.

MediaTek owns 70 percent market share and is the No. 1 chipset provider for digital and smart TVs. The company currently powers more than two billion TVs globally.

The MT5670 supports 4K UHD support and has built-in advanced processing technologies. MediaTek’s TV AI picture quality (AI PQ) technology uses facial and scene recognition to automatically adjust the sharpness and fine-tune picture quality settings. The chipset supports MediaTek’s MiraVision technology and MDDi de-interlace solution for smooth picture quality, and integrates high-quality audio codec.

The MT5670 packs four Arm Cortex-A53 CPUs operating at 1.5 GHz and an Arm Mali G51 GPU. Additional features include:

• Android TV 9 support
• Worldwide multi-standard analog TV demodulator
• ATSC/DVB-T/DVB-C/ISDB-T demodulators
• UHD@60Hz direct drive
• 3D graphic support OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0/3.1/3.2
• A transport de-multiplexer
• A muti-standard video decoder (including VP9)
• Rich format audio codec
• H.264 encoder
• HDMI 2.0 receiver with 3D support

The MT5670 will be available globally in smart TVs launching this month.