After years of doggedly keeping its Exynos chips afloat, Samsung is well and truly regarding to drop the case. We learn that internally, a new team would have been responsible for developing smartphone chips that would act as an alternative to the current solutions of the Korean giant.
Is Samsung regarding to drop Exynos chip production and their integration into its high-end smartphones ? The question begins to seriously arise. While stubborn rumors have suggested for several months that Samsung would be on the point of stopping the charges in this matter, new information tends to confirm, at least in part, this persistent thesis. To explain it properly, however, you have to go (a little bit) into the detail of the different internal branches of Samsung.
As reminded Android Police, the Korean giant’s smartphones are produced by the Mobile eXperience (MX) division, while the Exynos chips are designed by the System LSI branch. Until now, MX and System LSI have worked closely together to enable Exynos SoCs to be integrated into a whole constellation of mobile devices, including many Galaxy smartphones. According to industrial sources of The Electhis would soon no longer be the case.
Exynos: Samsung might change its approach
More precisely, The Elec reports that the MX department has formed a new team to develop smartphone processors independent of System LSI. The idea here would be to design SoCs dedicated exclusively to the smartphone field, while the current and future Exynos chips would then be reassigned to other sectors (such as the automotive field, the IoT or them wearables).
To lead this new team attached to the MX division, Samsung would also rely on Won-Joon Choi, a former Qualcomm executive, whom he left in 2016 to join the Korean group. Since then, the person concerned has in particular directed R&D on flagships of Samsung as well as the Technology Strategy team, specifies Android Police.
It remains to be seen what to expect with regard to the Galaxy S23. Leaks have indicated that Samsung’s next spearhead will be exclusively equipped with Qualcomm chips, while others have, on the contrary, induced that it will continue to be equipped in part with Exynos processors.
Difficult for the moment to see it completely clearly, especially since Samsung did not wish to comment on the information of The Elec, but it seems in any case that the firm is well on its way to launching much more competitive smartphone processors within a few years. In the meantime, it wouldn’t be surprising if the partnership between Samsung and Qualcomm continues to grow stronger.
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