The South Korean giant is planning to come back big this time with its next Exynos chip joining hands with both ARM for its CPU cores and AMD for graphics. Previously, Samsung had its custom Mongoose cores in development which never went well.
As 2021 approaches, the mobile SoC market is again heating up with 5nm as its next big revolution. Samsung can be a huge company but it lacks skills in making power mobile SoCs which time and again has hurt them. Qualcomm, it’s the biggest rival or say partner in various countries has been delivering powerful mobile SoCs for ages. But Samsung has failed to give any potential threat to them while it has even lost to Huawei’s HiSilicon chips as well.
Samsung has a good chance to bounce back as Huawei’s flagship chipset manufacturing will be stopped due to US pressure. It has to counter Snapdragon 875 and makes its chip good enough to lure the customer away from Apple, who is killing it this time with its A14 chips.
A new report from Business Korea says a new strategic partnership between the trio: Samsung, ARM, and AMD. It’s current flagship Exynos 990 is way out of the league in terms of general performance and the Mali GPU is just not compelling enough.
Samsung will be using ARM’s new Cortex-X architecture, the same that will be used by Qualcomm as well on the newer Snapdragon 875, on its upcoming Exynos chip and this can deliver up to a 30% increase in performance compared to the previous Cortex-A cores. There has been a lot of rumours about the upcoming Exynos 1000 chipset, which however is not confirmed whether the report points to it or some other SoC.
The 5 nm based Exynos 1000 chip is rumored to feature the ARM’s latest Cortex-X1 high-performance core and 3 x Cortex-A78 cores along with standard 4 x Cortex-A55 cores. If graphics are to be considered, AMD’s RDNA graphics should deliver better graphics than Qualcomm’s Adreno GPU for sure, as AMD has a good record in making great embedded graphics for APUs and consoles.
Samsung even plans to upgrade the Neural Processing Units (NPUs) along with communication modems in its new Exynos line of chipsets. The South Korean giant doesn’t want to stop to this, it even plans to ramp up the number of hired personnel for chip development to 10x the workforce by 2030. In 2021, this battle will be an interesting one to look at, Snapdragon 875 vs Exynos 1000, not to forget, Huawei’s last Kirin 1020 and Apple’s A14 Bionic in action as well, coming sooner than the previous two.
via Wccftech
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