According to the report on the introduction of digitimes, as Qualcomm reduced the price of Snapdragon 450 chips to below US $10.50, MediaTek, under pressure, will reduce the price of P23 chips to below US $10. MediaTek P23 was originally a SoC of MediaTek as a benchmark Snapdragon 450. MediaTek's official initial price was about $15, but currently the price of Snapdragon 450 of the same specification is less than $10.5. If MediaTek maintains the original price, P23 will have no market competitiveness.

According to sources, the Snapdragon 450 with the 14nm process is manufactured by Samsung, and Samsung has provided Qualcomm with cheaper wafers. Samsung's 14nm wafers are sold to Qualcomm at a price of 2500 dollars per piece; MediaTek is looking for TSMC to contract, and the price of TSMC's 16nm wafers is as high as 3500 dollars/piece. MediaTek P23 will be a low-end SoC mainly promoted by MediaTek in the second half of 2017. MediaTek's target shipment volume for P23 is 50000 to 60000 units/month. At present, P23 has received a lot from OPPO vivo、 A large number of orders from Jinli and Meizu.

It is known that Helio P23 is a 16nm manufacturing process and adopts an eight core A53 architecture. The GPU may be the PowerVR 7XTP on the X30 (the main frequency is 850MHz). It supports LPDDR4X memory, the screen supports up to 2K resolution, dual cards, dual Voltes and Cat. 7.