14 DAY TRIAL // Samsung’s low-end smartphones could soon become even more affordable if the company goes forward with a plan to produce GPUs in-house.
According to job listings spotted by German site WinFuture, the South Korean firm is looking for engineers that would help start the manufacturing on GPU chips for its cheap smartphones, but which could then be expanded to other industries, including IoT and the automotive industry.
Needless to say, the plan could be to use these GPU chips across the entire lineup of smartphones, though this depends on performance and production costs.
What Samsung is aiming for is to reduce manufacturing costs of its devices in order to increase profit margin. With an in-house solution, the company would no longer have to pay extra fees to third-party suppliers, while at the same time getting more control over the production costs and ensuring that higher requirements are met.
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Samsung has already adopted a similar approach for the processors used on its flagship phones. The Samsung Galaxy 9 is available with a choice of two chipsets, one of which is the Exynos that is built in-house by the South Korean firm.
The job postings that are published on LinkedIn do not provide any specifics on Samsung’s plans. The company is looking for a GPU silicon debug engineer, GPU top-level systems verification engineers, staff GPU memsys RTL design engineer, GPU performance modeling engineer, GPU architecture modeling engineering, and other employees who’d be part of this new effort.
By the looks of things, Samsung is now forming the new unit from scratch and is looking for workforce to manufacture the GPU chips. Of course, it will take a while until this plan comes to fruition, and production of GPU units won’t begin overnight, but it’s pretty clear that the company wants to reduce reliance on third parties and enjoy all the benefits coming along with this change.