14 DAY TRIAL // Back in 2010 Samsung introduced its first Galaxy S flagship, which incidentally took advantage of the company’s first-generation Exynos in-house processor.
Since then, Samsung has been avidly working to perfect its platform, and this year we’re going to see the advent of the Exynos M1 (8890 model number) chipset that arrives with the company’s own custom cores dubbed Mongoose.
Samsung’s Exynos platform is subject to a continuous evolutionary process, and according to a new report coming out of G for Games, in a few years’ time, the South Korean tech giant will implement its own GPUs inside its Exynos platform.
By 2017 or 2018, Samsung is expected to employ a Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA), which means that the CPU and GPU will be located on the same bus, thus sharing the same tasks and memory. The switch to HSA should allow the chipset to run faster and offer an advanced graphics performance.
According to a recently leaked roadmap, Samsung is bound to debut an Exynos SoC based on HAS in a year or two. This chipset will still be taking advantage of a Mali GPU, but subsequently Samsung will go on to replace said Mali GPU with a GPU of its own making.
Samsung is slowly getting more serious about its SoCs
Rumors stating that the Korean tech giant is interested in building its own GPU platform first made their way online back in September 2014. Back then, we told you that Samsung was apparently in the process of recruiting key players inside NVIDIA, AMD and Intel.
Well, it seems that we still have a few years to wait until Samsung produces an Exynos chipset with its own GPU on the inside.
The company’s first Exynos chipset with custom cores, the M1, is bound to make a debut earlier next year when the company launches the Galaxy S7 flagship.
The device is expected to pack under the hood either the Exynos 8890 or the Snapdragon 820 chipset (only some markets like US and China will get this variant). The two versions of the handset are rumored to come with different amounts of RAM on board, the Exynos-based model boasting 3GB while the Snapdragon one would have 4GB of RAM instead.