Exynos
In a joint press release released this evening, AMD and Samsung have announced that the two companies are renewing their GPU architecture licensing agreement for Samsung’s Exynos SoCs. The latest multi-year deal between AMD and Samsung will see Samsung continuing to license AMD’s Radeon graphics architectures for use in the company’s Arm-based Exynos SoCs, with the two companies committing to work together over “multiple generations” of GPU IP. The extension of the licensing agreement comes just shy of 4 years after Samsung and AMD announced their initial licensing agreement in June of 2019. The then-groundbreaking agreement would see Samsung license Radeon GPU IP for use in their flagship Exynos SoCs in an effort to get a jump on the mobile SoC market, tapping AMD’s superior...
AMD confirms Ray-Tracing and VRS in Samsung Exynos RDNA GPU IP
At this year’s AMD Computex 2021 keynote event, CEO Lisa Su, among a series of various new product announcements and technology disclosures, has teased some new details on the...
49 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/1/2021Samsung Confirms AMD RDNA GPU In Next Exynos Flagship
Today during the Exynos 2100 launch event, Samsung's Dr. Inyup Kang, VP and GM of the System LSI division, confirmed that their partnership with AMD on integrating a next-generation...
15 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/12/2021Samsung Announces Exynos 2100 SoC: A New Restart on 5nm with X1 Cores
Today, Samsung LSI took the virtual stage to announce the new Exynos 2100 flagship SoC. The new SoC promises some very large technical upgrades – the aforementioned new Cortex-X1...
34 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/12/2021Samsung Teases CES Announcement For Next Exynos SoC
Samsung this morning has dropped as brief teaser about their next-generation Exynos SoC. Dubbed “Exynos is back”, Samsung is revealing that there will be a proper announcement for the...
12 by Ryan Smith on 12/18/2020ISCA 2020: Evolution of the Samsung Exynos CPU Microarchitecture
ISCA, the International Symposium for Computer Architecture is an IEEE conference that usually we don’t tend to hear from all that often in the public. The main reason for...
52 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/3/2020Samsung Unveils Galaxy A51 & Galaxy A71 Mid-Range Smartphones: 6.5/6.7-Inches With 4-Module Cameras
While Samsung draws most of its smartphone reputation from its high-end phones, the bulk of the phones that the company sells are are not the $700+ Galaxy S series...
22 by Anton Shilov on 12/16/2019Samsung Confirms Custom CPU Development Cancellation
The fate of Samsung's custom CPU development efforts has been making the rounds of the rumour mill for almost a month, and now we finally have confirmation from Samsung...
42 by Andrei Frumusanu on 11/4/2019Samsung Announces Exynos 990: 7nm EUV, M5, G77, LPDDR5 Flagship SoC alongside Exynos 5123 5G Modem
Today Samsung unexpectedly announced the brand new Exynos 990 chipset – likely to be Samsung’s flagship SoC for 2020, employing the newest IP and offering the newest features on...
52 by Andrei Frumusanu on 10/23/2019Samsung Announces Exynos 980 - Mid-Range With Integrated 5G Modem
In a surprise announcement, Samsung today unveiled their very first SoC with integrated 5G connectivity. The new chipset isn’t a flagship follow-up to the Exynos 9825 and 9820, but...
20 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/4/2019Samsung Announces Galaxy Note10 & Note10+: A Redesign With Feature Disparity
It’s that time of the year again. We’ve made it past the first half of 2019 and all vendors have released their initial flagship devices for the year. Samsung...
106 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/7/2019Samsung Announces the Exynos 9825 SoC: First 7nm EUV Silicon Chip
This year’s Galaxy S10 has been in a bit of an odd situation: Although Samsung continued to dual-source its SoCs, using both its own Exynos 9820 SoC as well...
49 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/6/2019AMD and Samsung's GPU Licensing Deal: A New Era of Collaboration?
Back on Monday we saw the surprise announcement from AMD and Samsung revealing a multi-year strategic partnership in which Samsung will license AMD’s graphics IP. Since the announcement, we’ve...
96 by Ryan Smith & Andrei Frumusanu on 6/7/2019AMD To License Out Radeon GPU IP to Samsung For Use In SLSI Mobile GPUs
Today Samsung and AMD announced a new multi-year strategic partnership between the two companies, where Samsung SLSI will license graphics IP from AMD for use in mobile GPUs.
47 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/3/2019Hands on with the Samsung S10+, S10, and S10e: Which Witch is Which?
Standing as the world’s largest smartphone retailer, Samsung’s flagship family leads the way into how the company sees the next generation of user experience and interaction. Each release has...
72 by Ian Cutress on 2/21/2019Samsung’s Intros Exynos Auto V9 SoC: Octa-A76 Chip to Power Audi’s In-Vehicle Infotainment System
Samsung today rolled out its new Exynos Auto V9 SoC, announcing that the automotive-focused SoC will power Audi’s in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system that will debut by 2021. Samsung’s first...
17 by Anton Shilov on 1/3/2019Arm Delivers on Cortex A76 Promises: What it Means for 2019 Devices
In the grand scheme of things, it hasn’t been all that long since we first covered Arm’s announcement of the new Cortex A76 CPU microarchitecture. The new CPU IP...
99 by Andrei Frumusanu on 11/20/2018Samsung Exynos 7 9610: Mid-Range With Big Cores
Samsung last week introduced its new Exynos SoC designed for mainstream late 2018/early 2019 smartphones. The Exynos 7 9610 is outfitted with high-performance general-purpose cores, an advanced GPU, a...
10 by Anton Shilov on 3/27/2018Samsung Begins Production of Exynos i T200 SoC for Miniature IoT Devices
Samsung on Thursday said it had begun to mass-produce its first SoC for miniature IoT devices, the Exynos i T200. Aimed at devices that do not need a lot...
16 by Anton Shilov on 6/23/2017Hands On With the Samsung Gear S3
For a while now the smartwatch market has been developing in fits and starts. One of the more interesting developments in this space isn’t Android Wear and watchOS, but...
35 by Joshua Ho on 8/31/2016