Samsung just announced last Thursday that it has signed a multi-year contract extension with AMD as part of their licensing agreement. This allows the South Korean giant to access the intellectual property of the American chipmaker’s Radeon graphics cards.
The two parties signed the original agreement in 2019 for AMD to license its RDNA graphics architecture intellectual property to Samsung for use in smartphones and other mobile devices.
Since then, Samsung has been using AMD’s Radeon graphics solutions on its Exynos SoCs, which power its Galaxy smartphones.
Ray tracing, an example of the achievements of the AMD / Samsung agreement
As for the expansion, which will open up multiple generations of AMD Radeon to more Exynos SoCs, the South Korean tech giant said it will allow it to bring “console-level graphics power and power consumption.” Optimized Energy” to more mobile devices.
Samsung recently introduced ray tracing on its mobile processors using the AMD platform. Last year, the South Korean tech giant introduced Xclipse, its mobile graphics processing unit that uses the AMD RDNA 2 architecture. Samsung’s announcement shows it hasn’t given up on developing its Exynos SoCs and to allay fears about the future of its partnership with AMD, which has had mixed results over the past two years.
The Exynos 2200 SoC introduced on the Galaxy S22 smartphones, which Samsung touted using the AMD RDNA 2 GPU, faced overheating issues, for example. This problem seems to be partly the cause of Samsung’s use of Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipsets in its Galaxy S23 smartphones.
Source: ZDNet.com