Samsung is often criticized for its Exynos mobile processors. Recently, negative comments have been addressed to the manufacturer due to the fact that Galaxy S20 series smartphones based on the company's own processors are inferior in performance to versions based on Qualcomm chips.
Despite this, Samsung's latest report states that the company has partnered with Google to produce a custom chip for the search giant. While many do not like that Samsung continues to equip flagship smartphones with its own chipsets, the company seems to have made a firm decision to continue doing so. By using its own processors, Samsung has steadily reduced its dependence on vendors such as Qualcomm and MediaTek, making it now the world's third largest mobile chip manufacturer.
The processor for Google, which is expected to be released this year, will be manufactured using Samsung's 5nm process technology. He will receive eight computing cores: two Cortex-A78, two Cortex-A76 and four Cortex-A55. The yet unannounced Mali MP20 GPU, developed on the basis of the Borr microarchitecture, will be responsible for the graphics. The chipset will include a Visual Core ISP and an NPU developed by Google itself.
Last year it was reported that Google was poaching chip developers from Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom and NVIDIA to work on its own single-chip platform. Probably, the search giant has not yet staffed properly, as a result of which it turned to Samsung for help.
It is not known for which device the new chipset is intended. It can find application both in the new Pixel series smartphone, and even in some Google server products.
Source: 3dnews.ru