In November last year, Samsung announced that it was continuing development work for its custom CPU cores for Exynos chipsets. The next-gen flagship Exynos chipset, which will likely power the Galaxy S30 series, is expected to have ARM’s off-the-shelf cores. According to a new report from Business Korea, Samsung aims to become the No.1 Android application processor (AP) by forming a partnership with ARM and AMD.
Now that Huawei’s HiSilicon subsidiary can no longer develop custom Kirin chips due to US sanctions, Samsung remains the only Android OEM to use its own chips. While the company’s Exynos 990 is not quite on par with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865 and 865+ chipsets in terms of performance, the next flagship Exynos processor is expected to be a massive improvement in all areas.
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The report claims that Samsung is currently working with ARM to create a new CPU based on the Cortex-X core. Announced in May this year, ARM’s Cortex-X1 design promises a 30% improvement in peak performance over the Cortex-A77. It also offers 22% higher performance with one thread, compared to the latest ARM Cortex-A78.
Graphics performance is another area where Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipsets have dominated Samsung’s Exynos chips. To overcome this weakness, Samsung plans to use an AMD custom GPU in its flagship Exynos chipset for 2021. The report further outlines the neural processing units (NPUs) and modems that will be used in the future Exynos chips will be superior to Qualcomm’s offering.
