Samsung is collaborating with Google to jointly develop a custom Exynos chipset. The chip will be launched as soon as this year, and it may be released in the future Google Pixel mid-range models, according to zol.com.cn.
According to the report, Samsung's next-generation Exynos chips will use ARM CPU cores. GPUs may even abandon ARM's Mali series and adopt AMD Radeon GPU solutions, which will greatly improve overall performance.
This custom Exynos chip will use Samsung's 5nm LPE process, with eight cores, two Cortex-A78 and two Cortex-A76 CPU cores, and four Cortex-A55 CPU cores.
It is worth noting that Google seems to replace Samsung's image processor and neural processing unit with its own Visual Core ISP and NPU.
Samsung's cooperation with Google in AI can be said to be a strong alliance. To know that Google's AI technology is very powerful, Google Pixel phones benefit from the powerful AI image algorithm, which makes it outstanding in mobile phone imaging.
Samsung has greater ambitions for its Exynos chip series, establishing a new development direction, instead of using the self-developed mongoose architecture, and using the ARM public version architecture; GPU draws on AMD's powerful strength in graphics display. The image performance of the next-generation Exynos chip is very exciting.
In the future, Google may use the upcoming custom chipset in Pixel smartphones, Chrome OS devices and even data center servers.
Samsung created a new "Custom SoC" team in its device solutions business unit earlier this year.
Samsung's new Custom SoC team currently has about 30 members, but there are plans to expand in the next few years. Samsung clearly has its own clear direction towards the goal of the world's largest system semiconductor company.
