Samsung Electronics, the world’s leading smartphone manufacturers, is also on the list of a handful of companies that makes their own chips. Unlike Apple, Samsung also uses chips from companies like Qualcomm and MediaTek as well, along with its own Exynos SoC.
So far, the majority of the Samsung phones have been using third-party chips and not the brand’s own but that may soon get changed as the South Korean technology giant is planning to reduce its reliance on US-based chipmaker Qualcomm.
Currently, only about 20 percent of the total smartphone from Samsung comes powered by its own Exynos series chips. Qualcomm dominates in the mid-range and premium smartphones many of the new entry-level phones now pack MediaTek chips.
Starting with 2022, as per the report from Electronic Times (via ITHome), the number of Samsung Galaxy smartphones powered by its own Exynos chips will increase by two or three times, and the System LSI Division will more than double the production capacity for the Exynos lineup of chips.
One of the reasons being attributed to this move is the global chip shortage. The company had to postpone the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE smartphone several times because of the shortage of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chips and the phone is now scheduled to go official in January next year. This has led to a major blow for the South Korean company’s sales and launch schedule.
Samsung is expected to soon launch its Exynos 2200 SoC and the GPU benchmark results of this upcoming chip have been leaked online. It shows that AMD’s RDNA 2-powered 6-core GPU on the Exynos 2200 has a peak performance improvement of +31 to 34% over the Exynos 2100, which is quite a bit considering that we usually see +20 to 25% performance gains between generations.
It is being claimed that the Samsung Exynos 2200 will use the new ARMv9 architecture that was launched this year. This one focuses big on AI, machine learning, and security, meaning that the chipset will be benefitting from them. But, it still remains to be seen how well the Exynos 2200 will be performing against the likes of the Apple A15 and Snapdragon 8 Gen1 (aka Snapdragon 898), which are its true rivals.
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