There were rumors that Samsung could work with AMD on a custom mobile GPU. Nothing has been done yet, but Samsung took everyone by surprise in June 2019.
The company announced that it had entered into a strategic partnership with AMD to bring its high-performance Radeon graphics to mobile processors. At today’s Exynos On 2021 event for the Exynos 2100, Samsung revealed a little more information about its custom GPU plans.
Samsung and AMD have been working on this for two years
Dr. Inyup Kang, President of System LSI Business at Samsung, confirmed during the event that Samsung is working with AMD to produce a “next generation mobile GPU” that will be launched “in the next flagship product”.
That’s all Kang had to say on the subject. Although it does not answer many of the questions we have about this partnership between Samsung and AMD, it confirms that we will see this new GPU in the near future.
Exactly what Kang meant by “next flagship product” remains a mystery. Will the GPU be introduced with the Galaxy Note 21? Let’s not forget that there are rumors about the Galaxy Note series being discontinued this year. Could it be that the flagship he was referring to is the Galaxy Z Fold 3?
What matters most is the performance that this GPU will be able to provide. With Samsung moving away from custom CPU cores for its Exynos chipsets, a powerful custom GPU could be the lifeline for the Exynos project.
There were rumors at the end of last year that the high-end AMD graphics chipset currently under development at Samsung will not be released until 2022. If so, we may have to wait until the Galaxy S22 to see what these two companies have cooked .