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Samsung Electronics has world-class semiconductor manufacturing facilities and leading-edge process technologies. While the company designs its own system-on-chips for mobile devices, Samsung continues to use application processors from Qualcomm for its high-end smartphones and extensively uses intellectual property from ARM Holdings and Imagination Technologies. Apparently, Samsung wants to change that and design its SoCs itself from the ground up.
When Samsung develops its own SoC for its smartphones or tablets at present it simply licenses building blocks from ARM or Imagination, which means that its application processorsare generally similar to those from companies like MediaTek. In order to differentiate itself from its rivals, Samsung Electronics is reportedly working on a new breed of its application processors with its own general purpose and graphics processing cores inside, reports ZDNet Korea citing its own sources.
It is not a secret that Samsung has been developing its own central processing unit cores based on ARMv8-A 64-bit architecture for several years now. The company had to acquire appropriate license from ARM Holdings and hire professional developers. Given the amount of ex-AMD talent hired by Samsung in the recent years, the company should be on-track with its own CPU cores sometimes next year.
However, Samsung does not want to integrate only its own general-purpose core. According to the report, it is also working on its own graphics processing unit. The details about the project are completely unknown since if Samsung develops its own graphics core from scratch, it needs hundreds of specialists and many years of time. It is more likely that the company has licensed certain technologies from ARM and Imagination and wants to create a custom graphics processor with unique feature-set.
Keeping in mind that Samsung is one of the founding members of the HSA [heterogeneous system architecture] foundation, it is more than likely that its forthcoming chips will be fully HSA compatible and will thus be able to use GPU stream processors for general-purpose tasks, saving power and providing performance improvements.
The first system-on-chip with Samsung’s own CPU and GPU cores is expected to emerge next year, perhaps, along with the company’s next-generation Galaxy Note premium smartphone.
Samsung did not comment on the news-story.
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KitGuru Says: It is logical for Samsung to develop its own SoCs and their components from scratch in order to make its devices better compared to competing products. It remains to be seen whether GPU cores developed by Samsung will be as competitive as those designed by ARM, Imagination, Nvidia or Qualcomm. What is clear is that even if the first-gen CPUs and GPUs from Samsung do not demonstrate truly high performance, the company will strengthen its development team and will come up with something better eventually. Competitive SoCs are just too important for Samsung. The company will do its best to make them more advanced than offerings from competing developers.
They need to merge with amd right now, so much win win
yeah…. me too agree with that idea
They would lose x86 licence if Samsung buy them.
For real? Why?
I don’t know, but I read somewhere that it isn’t transferable.
In this case its not a tranference ( amd himself under samsumg or an aliance will make the chips), of course you cant sell these things, these are given with a contract
There are ways around the limitations on transfer of ownership x86 licensing agreement with Intel. A reverse buyout, where technically, AMD buys out the other company would allow the retention of the x86 license. For example, if AMD technically bought out nVidia, but used nVidia’s money for the purchase, they would still retain the x86 license. Such a partnership between AMD and nVidia would provide the newly merged company a monopoly on the gaming/professional graphics market, provide a much needed infusion of cash for AMD’s processor division under Jim Keller, which would likely allow them to outgun Intel again in x86 CPUs, and would also combine their ARM processor engineering teams – nVidia’s already got a pretty damn good SoC for tablets and phones with Tegra, and AMD is already finished their first generation of 64 bit ARM server chip, and are working on the next one. The resulting GPU/CPU juggernaut would be able to lock down the supercomputing market (nVidia’s got the contracts for the nextgen supercomputing GPUs), the gaming console market (AMD’s already got the sweep on those), the PC graphics market, provide extreme competition in the ARM phone, tablet and server markets, and once again produce Intel-beating x86 processors and APUs.
The synergies would be incredible, and it would just make so much sense.
What stands in the way of such a match made in heaven? Well, unfortunately, Jen Hsun Huang would lose his ego in the transaction, as the new entity would still have to be called Advanced Micro Devices, so that’s why it hasn’t happened yet.
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As Samsung recently signed an agreement to licence all the new arm mali gpu’s and even the one, which are not here yet, for me it seems like they wont do an own gpu for a few more years or at all.
But we might see Samsung Exynos M1