A second MediaTek executive has outed Samsung as the company's partner in a Romanian launch event around the Allview P9 Energy, in which the representative said “We cannot provide information about products that have not yet been announced by our partners.” This statement itself implies that Samsung is a “partner,” which is a second confirmation of Samsung and MediaTek's work relationship (if the first MediaTek rep's quote didn't give it away).
We don't know why Samsung and MediaTek are partnering together, but we can safely presume that it has to do with MediaTek's processors since Samsung seems to have an interest in testing their performance in high-end handsets (though we wouldn't rule out low-end handsets as well). With that said, Samsung never strikes a partnership deal without reason. Watching to see just what comes about because of it makes for interesting times ahead.
