MediaTek is stuffing edge AI into anything with a battery, a camera or a bolt-on arm.
In Nuremberg, Germany on 10 March 2026, the firm used Embedded World to wheel out new Genio platforms aimed at robotics, drones and industrial IoT.
The line-up is MediaTek Genio Pro, Genio 420 and Genio 360, with Genio Pro pitched as the premium kit for high-performance embedded jobs.
MediaTek says Genio Pro is meant to power autonomous mobile robots, commercial drones, edge AI boxes, machine vision rigs and transport and logistics platforms.
MediaTek, VP and general manager of the IoT Business Group, CK Wang said: “Building on MediaTek’s long track record of developing high-performance systems on advanced nodes, Genio Pro brings our flagship mobile and computing expertise to the IoT space,” said CK Wang. “With standout on-device generative AI processing power and industry-leading multimedia support, Genio Pro is the perfect choice for manufacturers designing AI and Generative AI applications.”
Genio Pro is built on a TSMC 3nm process and uses an all-big-core Arm v9.2 CPU setup with one Cortex-X925, three Cortex-X4, and four Cortex-A720 cores.
MediaTek reckons that adds up to 260K DMIPS, with an Arm Immortalis-G925 GPU claiming 3.1 TFLOPS of compute and graphics.
The platform carries an eighth-generation MediaTek NPU, and MediaTek says it supports more than 50 TOPS of system-level generative AI acceleration.
NeuroPilot support covers PyTorch, ONNX Runtime and TFLite, with MediaTek pushing “traditional AI” jobs like vision and classification alongside the generative stuff.
For generative AI, MediaTek claims token generation of up to 23 tokens per second for models with up to 7B parameters, which is a tidy headline for edge boxes.
Robotics and drones get the sensor-fusion angle, with support for up to 16 cameras and up to three 4K displays for user interfaces.
MediaTek is dangling broad Linux support, naming Yocto, Debian and Ubuntu, plus ROS 2 support to make robotics developers feel at home.
On the hardware side, it supports discrete 64-bit LPDDR5x at up to 8533Mbps, which MediaTek says makes manufacturing easier for higher-end IoT designs.
Genio Pro supports 8K30 multi-format video encode and decode, then a grab bag of camera modes, including two 4K30 plus eight FHD30 streams or up to 16 FHD30 via virtual channels.
I/O includes 3xPCIe Gen 4, 3xUSB 2.0, 1xUSB 3.2 Gen 2 and 2×2.5GbE MAC, with an industrial temperature range of -40°C to +105°C Tj.
MediaTek says Genio 420 is aimed at cost-sensitive builds, with 16GB of LPDDR5X and a 6nm design pushing 7.2 TOPS of system-level AI acceleration.
Display support spans dual 2.5K60 screens or a single panel at UW5K60 or 4K60, and it is pin-to-pin compatible with Genio 720 and Genio 520.
Genio 360 and 360P target value-tier devices, with 6 TOPS for Genio 360 and 8.5 TOPS for Genio 360P.
MediaTek says the 360 series can run edge generative AI for models up to 2 billion parameters, with support for single 4K60 or dual FHD60 displays and 8GB of LP4X-3733.
Genio Pro is due to start sampling in Q1 2026 with production in Q3 2026, while Genio 420 starts sampling in April 2026 and the Genio 360 series is already sampling.
MediaTek says it will demo the Genio family at Embedded World in Nuremberg from 10-12 March 2026 in Hall 3 at booth 539.
