MediaTek recently announced an alliance with Intel, to provide the US firm with 5G modems, now that Intel has all but quit that market itself. The family of system-on-chip (SoC) products at the heart of this deal – and of MediaTek’s bid to stage a comeback against Qualcomm in the smartphone sector – is called Dimensity. The first family under this brand name is Dimensity 1000, which offers an SoC with integrated 5G modem. This is MediaTek’s first 7-nanometer product and it should come to market before year end. The chip supports two-carrier aggregation for 5G, and is the first to enable dual 5G SIM technology. MediaTek claims world-beating downlink speeds of 4.7Gbps on sub-6 GHz networks, with 2.5Gbps uplink,…