Samsung Electronics introduced its first mobile processor powered by Advanced Micro Devices graphics as the company tries to better compete with the gaming prowess of archrival Apple’s iPhones.<\/p>\n
The new Exynos 2200 processor is built using Samsung\u2019s most advanced 4nm fabrication process and is the industry\u2019s first mobile chip with hardware support for ray tracing, an advanced approach to high-fidelity graphics that has been gaining traction in PC graphics cards.<\/p>\n
The graphics chip built on AMD\u2019s RDNA 2 architecture, dubbed Xclipse, is described in Samsung\u2019s announcement as bridging the gap between console and mobile performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cSamsung\u2019s Xclipse GPU is the first result of multiple planned generations of AMD RDNA graphics in Exynos,\u201d said David Wang, senior vice president at AMD.<\/p>\n
Samsung typically uses its in-house Exynos processors in its own flagship Galaxy devices in some markets and it has\u00a0customers\u00a0such as Vivo that make use of its silicon in their handsets.<\/p>\n
Apple\u2019s self-designed A-series processors and Qualcomm Inc.\u2019s Snapdragon lineup have traditionally dominated the mobile landscape, despite Samsung\u2019s advantage of being able to manufacture its own chips.<\/p>\n
The eight-core Exynos 2200 system-on-chip, now in mass production, is among the first to use the newest Armv9 central processing cores and includes an onboard neural processing unit focused on artificial intelligence tasks.<\/p>\n
The NPU\u2019s performance has doubled this generation, according to Samsung. 5G wireless connectivity is also built into the chip, which will sit at the heart of Android smartphones this year.<\/p>\n
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