MediaTek has unveiled its first NB-IoT System-on-Chip (SoC), the MT2625, and announced a collaboration with China Mobile to build the world’s smallest NB-IoT module. Aligning with the world’s largest MNO, by customer base at least, will give MediaTek the opportunity to score big in the nascent LPWAN market. In the announcement, MediaTek corporate VP and GM, Jerry Yu, pointed to the huge opportunity coming in China for NB-IoT. We’re largely in agreement with Yu that China will be a huge area of growth for NB-IoT, thanks to Huawei’s dominant position in the MNO infrastructure market – and Huawei’s support for the low-power protocol. The GSMA recently published a list of partners around the NB-IoT ecosystem – the most prominent of…