At the end of 2019 Samsung stopped development work on its custom cores for Exynos processors, a temporary stoppage that would now be about to resume if the notification from Business Korea is confirmed, a medium that states that Samsung has partnered with ARM and AMD to become the leading manufacturer of processors.
At the beginning of this week, we published an article where we informed you of the Huawei's plans with its Kirin processors, processors that have been forced to stop manufacturing by the United States sanctions, Being the Mate 40, the last smartphone that will implement them.
After the forced abandonment of Huawei, Samsung becomes the only manufacturer to use their own processors. Samsung's latest processor within the Exynos range, the 990, once again falls short of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 865 and 865+ in terms of performance, however, after this partnership a massive improvement is expected in all areas. .
Business Korea claims that Samsung is currently working with ARM to create a new processor based on the Cortex-X core. Cortex-X1 ensures 30% more performance with respect to the Cortex-A77. Plus, it offers 22% more single-thread performance compared to the Cortex-A78.
But not only will performance be improved, but future Samsung processors will also try to overcome the other current weakness against Qualcomm processors, using a custom graphics designed by AMD on Exynos processors from 2021.
Neural processing units and communication modems are also expected to be used in the 2021 Exynos. are higher than those currently offered by Qualcomm.
We will have to wait until next year 2021 at the earliest to confirm whether the result of this partnership allows Samsung become the leading manufacturer of ARM processors, surpassing Qualcomm, who has reigned in this market for the last decade.