Following the failure of the Exynos 2200, Samsung was forced to reconsider its smartphone chip strategy, and according to a new report, the Korean conglomerate has assembled a team of talented individuals to develop custom CPU cores. This move should not only help the company reduce its reliance on ARM’s CPU designs, but also allow the company to compete directly with Apple and, eventually, Qualcomm.
Samsung’s custom CPU designs will make their way to smartphones and, eventually, tablets and laptops, following Apple’s lead. Business Korea reports that the company has hired Rahul Tuli, a former AMD executive and developer. Unfortunately, as much as we would like to see these CPU cores in action right away, it appears that not everything will go as planned.
If the development process goes well, the first family of Samsung custom CPU cores will be used in 2027
That represents four years of development work, and before that, we must see the new custom SoC, which is said to be tailor-made for a future Galaxy S series. We shouldn’t expect this custom chipset before 2025, so we’ll have to wait a while before Samsung has any skin in the game.
For those who are unfamiliar with Samsung’s chip development history, this is not the company’s first rodeo with custom CPU cores. Those earlier cores were codenamed Mongoose, but because they underwhelmed in every way, Samsung halted development after the M5 cores, which were a part of the Exynos 990 SoC found in the Galaxy S20 family, which debuted in 2020.
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