Samsung works on advanced “Galaxy Chips” with proprietary CPUs | Rumor

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Samsung Electronics will be dedicated to the development of much more advanced system on chip for smartphones and PCs and will include among others custom CPU: information comes from Business Korea, and further confirms an indiscretion that has been circulating for some time. The ultimate goal is to reach the same status as Apple, which with its A chips (for less prestigious iPhones and iPads) and M chips (for more prestigious iPads and computers) offers a product portfolio based almost exclusively (we are still waiting for the new Mac Pro) on proprietary solutions.

The source confirms that Samsung Electronics has recently assembled a in-house team dedicated to CPU core design; it would be led by Rahul Tuli, who held similar positions in the past at AMD. The Exynos chips used so far by Samsung have implemented the cores designed by Arm Inc. verbatim; some competing companies like Qualcomm operate in a slightly different way – the starting point is always Arm’s projects, but then they are adapted and optimized.

Apparently Samsung is using the temporary name internally Galaxy Chips for the SoC. Apart from the CPU, in late 2022 Samsung created another team within the System LSI division called the AP Solution Development Team, which will work closely with the Mobile Experience (MX) division to better optimize the chips based on the software.

The first Galaxy Chip shouldn’t be released before 2025, but Rahul Tuli’s team is unlikely to be ready for that time; and therefore it is assumed that he will at least initially still implement the cores of Arm. Hopefully, proprietary cores could arrive in 2027.

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This isn’t the first time Samsung has tried to develop a proprietary chip; clues of the first project, codename mongoose (mongoose, a mammal that eats snakes; Qualcomm chips at the time were codenamed Krait, a species of viper) emerged about 8 years ago, but apparently CPU performance was ultimately unable to match that of Qualcomm. The project was permanently canceled in 2019, resulting in the layoff of 300 people.

In recent years, Samsung has definitely pulled the oars in the chip sector (this year, it even exclusively adopted Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for its Galaxy S23 flagship family), but, in fact, it was clear right away that it is one strategic retreat to propose a more competitive offer