A new report from South Korea claims that Samsung will redevelop processor cores and join the race to develop more advanced chipsets for smartphones and computers.
The South Korean tech giant plans to reduce its reliance on competition from ARM and Apple by integrating processors of its own design into smartphones, tablets and laptops.
According to a report on Monday, Samsung recently formed an in-house team to develop processor cores. To lead the team, the company appointed Rahul Toli, a senior developer who had previously organized processor development projects at AMD.
The CPU responsible for calculating the data is the heart of the application processor and the brain of the smartphone.
Samsung has historically relied on ARM to supply CPU cores for its Exynos application processors. Samsung's rival Qualcomm also makes application processors based on ARM designs.
It is believed that if Samsung can develop its own processor core, it will be able to significantly improve the performance of its smartphones.
According to the report, Samsung is also accelerating the development of next-generation application processors, including chipsets for Galaxy smartphones. At the end of 2022, he established the System LSI division, the AP Solution Development Team, and the Mobile Experience Division of Samsung to optimize application processors.
The team is conducting advanced research on the next generation of chips. The team, tentatively called the Galaxy Chip, plans to develop a custom chip that will outperform existing chips.
Industry insiders expect the first version (Galaxy chip) to hit the market in 2025. However, since Samsung has recently started developing its core processor, it is likely that the first version (Galaxy Chip) will include the processing unit. The main computer comes from (ARM).
“If the development process goes well as usual, Samsung Electronics will be able to use its own processor by 2027,” an industry source told Business Korea.
It should be noted that this is not the first time that Samsung has tried to create its own processor. The company has built its own development team and invested in technology since early 2010 to expand its design capabilities.
The project was named Mongoose, a snake-eating mammal, after the competing company used the name Krait (a type of snake) for its products at the time.
However, an evaluation of Samsung's CPU cores found that they were not as good as competing Qualcomm chips, particularly in terms of power efficiency, heat generation, and multi-core efficiency. This led the company to conclude that its product would not be competitive and decided to abandon the project (NEMS).
In 2019, the company officially canceled the project, dismissing more than 300 developers from the Samsung Research Center in Austin, USA.
Since then, Samsung has been trying to expand its application processor market into the high-end mobile market dominated by Qualcomm and the low-end mobile application processor market dominated by MediaTek.
In addition, potential risks from Samsung's alliance with ARM are increasing, which is why Samsung is pushing to develop its processor cores.