Tokyo, NFAPost: Samsung is reportedly aiming to compete with Apple’s custom silicon by developing its advanced processors for smartphones and personal computers.
This will enable Samsung to take complete control of the design and optimization process, similar to Apple’s transition away from Intel.
The company has already established an internal team dedicated to developing CPU cores and hired Rahul Tuli, a former AMD developer, to lead the group. Samsung developing its chips in-house would enable the company to produce more advanced chips.
Samsung’s first application processor, the Galaxy Chip, is expected to launch by 2025. However, since Samsung has only just begun developing its own CPU core, the initial version of this chip will likely have a CPU based on Arm technology. If the company successfully develops its own CPU core, it will be able to load its own CPU by 2027.
This is not the first time that Samsung has developed its own CPU. The company began building its own development team and investing in technology in the early 2010s.
However, Samsung abandoned the project in 2019 after its CPU cores were deemed inferior to those of competitors such as Qualcomm in terms of power efficiency, heat generation, and multi-core efficiency. More than 300 developers at the Samsung Austin Research Center were laid off.
