Samsung has been using Xclips GPUs (built in collaboration with AMD) in its flagship Exynos chips. The GPUs equip AMD RDNA graphics IP and were projected to offer reasonably better ray tracing performance.
However, earlier last month tipster @rquandt hinted that Samsung may discontinue the partnership with AMD after 2025. “In 2026, Samsung seems to aim for the release of a next-gen flagship SoC feat its own GPU,” he noted.
In the latest news, the Korean platform Naver hints at the same. Reporter Jinsol Lee talks about Samsung considering investing in GPU at a board meeting. According to the report, a company executive at the management committee within the board of directors has decided to invest in GPUs. At the management level, the investment is expected to strengthen the company’s “GPU-related business competitiveness or to expand its internal information technology (IT) infrastructure.”
This is a bit unusual because the investment agenda has so far focused on the memory chips and the foundry. This is the first time that Samsung Electronics has decided to invest in GPUs at the management committee since 2012 when the agenda was made public.
In the Management Committee meeting, memory semiconductor and foundry factory construction and facility investment were reviewed. The company is also investing in AI chips and advanced packaging methods.
Given Samsung’s self-developed GPU manages to compete with the Adreno or Mali GPUs, it will offer the company more control over its products and will also likely save some costs.
That being said, the Exynos 2500 will still feature an RDNA GPU – the Xclips 950. However, a recent rumor also says that Samsung may not even use the chipset in the Galaxy S25 series at all. Nonetheless, we are still quite a few months away from the launch and more information should surface going forward.
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