MediaTek is setting ambitious goals for its 5G chip R&D project, aiming to leapfrog Qualcomm in the next generation of wireless technology. It says the architecture it is developing is targeting 1,000 times greater spectral efficiency than current mobile chipsets, 100 higher performance, 10 times lower power consumption and five times lower latency. These aggressive targets do, in fact, mirror some discussed by Qualcomm, but MediaTek is also aiming for a very low cost approach which would make the resulting products suitable for all kinds of connected objects in the Internet of Things. It is harnessing two important emerging elements of modern chip platforms. One is OpenCL (Open Computing Language), an important enabler of heterogeneous chips with a mixture of…