REDMI has officially introduced two new flagship products, the REDMI K90 Max smartphone and the REDMI K Pad 2 tablet, and both devices are built around MediaTek’s new Dimensity 9500 mobile platform. The announcement frames the chip as the technical foundation behind the products’ sustained performance, gaming stability, and broader flagship-level experience.
The REDMI K90 Max stands out because it is described as Xiaomi’s first smartphone with a built-in cooling fan. REDMI says the phone uses a suspended active air-cooling design that improves thermal performance while still preserving high-level dust and water resistance as well as battery capacity. Combined with a dual-chip hardware setup, a high-refresh-rate display, and a large battery with fast charging, the phone is positioned for long sessions under heavy load without the usual rapid performance drop-off caused by heat.
The REDMI K Pad 2, meanwhile, targets people who want a compact tablet without giving up flagship-class power. It uses an 8.8-inch body, a metal unibody design, a high-refresh, high-brightness display, and gaming-focused touch tuning for landscape play. REDMI also says the tablet includes a large liquid-cooling system and a high-capacity battery, aiming to keep the device smooth and stable for both gaming and mobile productivity.
At the center of both products is the Dimensity 9500, which the report says is built on TSMC’s third-generation 3nm process and uses a 1+3+4 all-big-core CPU layout. It also brings larger L3 and system cache capacity and integrates more than 30 billion transistors. According to the published details, that combination improves multi-core performance while also reducing peak power use, which is exactly why REDMI is leaning so hard on the chip in this launch.
Gaming is a major part of the pitch. The Dimensity 9500 reportedly includes a new G1-Ultra GPU with noticeable gains in both peak graphics output and efficiency. The chip is also said to support newer cross-platform graphics interfaces and console-style rendering features, giving mobile games a better shot at higher-end visual effects. On top of that, MediaTek has added a new dynamic GPU cache design, multi-thread load reduction, upgraded frame-rate boosting features, and a second-generation scheduling engine to help keep games running smoothly at high frame rates without wasting power.
The article also argues that the chip’s role goes well beyond gaming. MediaTek is positioning the Dimensity 9500 as a more complete flagship platform with upgraded on-device AI capability, a refreshed image signal processor, and improvements in display, connectivity, and communications. In practice, that gives device makers more room to differentiate their products while still relying on the same core silicon foundation.
Put simply, REDMI’s message is that these new products are not just flashy hardware launches. They are meant to show how far a current flagship Android design can go when thermal engineering, device tuning, and a stronger chip platform all line up in the same release cycle.
