Chen Yiqiang

Chen Yiqiang is the MediaTek wireless-communications executive interviewed in AI 时代的超级入口还是手机吗？｜ S10E17. He supplies the chip-company view on how AI changes terminal planning, NPU investment, software tooling, and system-level workload scheduling.

Chen’s central point is that software and scenarios increasingly define hardware. Because advanced smartphone chips need two to three years of planning, MediaTek and handset companies such as vivo must decide how much AI compute, NPU capability, memory bandwidth, and energy-management capacity to invest in before applications fully stabilize.

Connections

• MediaTek — company context for Chen’s comments.
• Dimensity 9500 — platform discussed as a vivo/MediaTek cooperation case.
• Handset-Chip Co-Design — Chen’s main cooperation frame between terminal scenarios and chip specifications.
• On-Device AI — implementation frame around hardware compute, middleware, NPU execution, and system scheduling.
• Edge-Cloud AI Boundary — Chen’s boundary between terminal-side real-time sensing and cloud-side heavy reasoning.
• Han Boxiao and vivo — counterpart speaker and terminal partner in the episode.