聯發科技股份有限公司
MediaTek is a global fabless semiconductor company that develops innovative systems-on-chip (SoC) for various applications, including mobile, home entertainment, connectivity, and IoT products. Recently, MediaTek has been involved in pioneering efforts to integrate 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) using LEO satellites, partnering with companies like Eutelsat and Airbus to enable satellite broadband for 5G devices. This work aims to create seamless interoperability between terrestrial and satellite networks, opening new markets for smartphones, automotive, and IoT sectors.
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MediaTek integrated NTN capabilities into its Dimensity Auto platform.
MediaTek demonstrated the world's first 5G NR-NTN video call at MWC 2026.
MediaTek's chipsets support 3GPP Release 17 and Release 18 standards.
Qualcomm and MediaTek are integrating satellite support into consumer chipsets to expand the addressable base for direct-to-device services.
Skylo leverages existing cellular chipsets and works with Qualcomm, Samsung, and MediaTek alongside software-defined non-terrestrial network standards.
MediaTek designed the user equipment for the test.
MediaTek is working with Inmarsat GEO satellites to support 0.005 kg innovation across multiple markets including smartphones.
MediaTek contributes to 3GPP NTN standards and provides 0.005 kg NTN technology used in the MediaTek–Inmarsat collaboration.
The MediaTek 0.005 kg NTN technology is operating on Inmarsat’s ELERA L-band satellite network as part of the collaboration.
On 2023-04-12, Inmarsat and Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek planned to jointly develop technologies to enable more mass market devices to connect directly to Inmarsat’s satellite network.
British ruggedized handset maker Bullitt unveiled Android smartphones that can connect to L-band satellites operated by Inmarsat and other geostationary operators in partnership with Skylo and MediaTek.
With MediaTek’s 3GPP NTN-standard modem and Skylo’s NTN service, smartphone and IoT manufacturers can develop devices, sensors, and wearables with built-in satellite connectivity.
MediaTek is working with Skylo to ensure the chipsets it manufactures are compliant with industry standards and compatible with Skylo’s commercial satellite network.
MediaTek’s 3GPP NTN-standard modem combined with Skylo’s NTN service enables smartphone and IoT manufacturers to develop devices, sensors, and wearables with built-in satellite connectivity.
Bullitt, in partnership with MediaTek, plans to release a smartphone 2023 that can send and receive texts globally via existing satellites in geostationary orbit.
Bullitt and Skylo engineering teams worked together with MediaTek over the past two years to develop a 3GPP standards-based approach to satellite NTN direct-to-device connectivity.
Bullitt has worked with chipmaker MediaTek for 18 months to develop a hybrid smartphone that connects to satellites.
MediaTek successfully tested narrowband IoT technology over Inmarsat’s Alphasat in geostationary orbit in August.
Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek successfully tested narrowband IoT technology over Alphasat, the L-band GEO satellite operated by U.K.-based Inmarsat, in August.