China-based Internet player Baidu is planning to release a smartphone using MediaTek's MT6595 application processor and will feature Baidu's heterogeneous system architecture (HSA) and artificial intelligence (AI) to allow functions such as voice, graphics and text recognition as well as voice translation, according to a Chinese-language Tencent report.

The technologies are able to process graphics and text recognition locally without needing a connection to a cloud computing platform, to enhance the use experience, the report added.