Samsung is shutting down its custom CPU core department, will use standard ARM cores

04 November 2019
The Exynos 9830 will likely be the first chipset to ditch the Mongoose custom cores.

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It seems Samsung will stop walking the Apple way. They gave up designing big cores without suffering from thermal and efficiency issues, except Apple can design big cores without said issues.

    Exynos should die for the sake of SoC.

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      Anonymous, 04 Nov 2019You're right. But on the off-chance that qualcomm decides t... moreThe consumers are buying in droves mediatek exynos and Kirin chipsets. Customers prefer plurality, companies don't they are inherently tyrannical which is why anti-trust laws were invented to begin with. You can't have a free society if you leave such overtly tyrannical elements operate unchallenged

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        MrPhone, 04 Nov 2019Finally...the rubbish chipsets will be gone But it will st... moreTrolling in this site? Why are rubbish, the Exynos processors? Since they have good performance even in standard Arm microarchitecture is what matters, since they put a custom AMD GPU which competes with the Adreno ones. A cpu performance similar to HiSilicon Kirin cpus.

          Anonymous, 04 Nov 2019So you never followed to know that from s1 to s8 exynos was... moreIn fact, the only time Samsung made a significantly better chipset than Qualcomm was when Samsung launched the S6, with the Exynos 7420, but that was because SD810 was a rushed-in chipset, and the 7420 used the newer 14 nm fabrication process, opposed to the 20 nm in SD810.

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            Anonymous, 04 Nov 2019So you never followed to know that from s1 to s8 exynos was... moreThough S8 was the last good one,8895 wasn't superior to SD835

              Nick Tagataka, 04 Nov 2019"The Mongoose cores are just this close to beat Apple in Si... moreYou can´t compare chipsets on different platforms, noob.

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                Anonymous, 04 Nov 2019Haha, you want a portable Sega Saturn? Heat wouldn't be an... moreActaulyl most phones comes with two or four A73 or A75 cores and six or four A53 or A55 ones... x-x

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                  Smartphon, 04 Nov 2019can we have a combo of two cpus in one phone?Haha, you want a portable Sega Saturn?
                  Heat wouldn't be an issue, compatibility and performance would. It would be a nightmare to create apps and run them efficiently.

                    Not surprising, since the S9, Samsung started to lag despite using plenty of die space for their Exynos SoCs

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                      Punisher, 04 Nov 2019How is that a good choice to rely on one cpu design company... moreYou cant design a cpu out of nothing . Especially backward compatibility . Sure huawei might be able build a totally new cpu since it got china government behind of it . But it wont compatible to any of the os now .

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                        kcvg, 04 Nov 2019A Qualcomm Snapdragon monopoly seems to be what everybody w... moreYou're right. But on the off-chance that qualcomm decides to work ethically, we might see less segmentation, better app support and compatibility, and even better firmware support.

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                          How is that a good choice to rely on one cpu design company. That is just unbelievable. Talking about monopoly. Every single one of them had the chance since 15 years ago to design their own cpu which has nothing to do with Arm. Instead everybody is trowing the towel because its to hard. Ok lets wait when some other screw head install some restrictions. Huawei better learn from this experience. Once this begins its time for absolute separation. It doesnt matter if its bad in the end. But no more screw head restrictions. Im talking about everything. Restricions. No problem we will produce everything by our selfs. China better step its game.

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                            gagegfg, 04 Nov 2019Embarrassment for the Samsung team. Not being able to overc... moreTheir cores were improved tough maybe they are gonna get AMD to custom their ARM CPUs and give them rDNA GPU both at the same time? :S

                              so mong-ghost now huh...

                                Smartphon, 04 Nov 2019can we have a combo of two cpus in one phone?Did you just say you want a sizzling hot plate on your hands??

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                                  Now they move to Huawei and Apple and become powerhouses against Qualcomm

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                                    That's 300 former employees taking their talent to Huawei and Xiaomi.

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                                      Embarrassment for the Samsung team. Not being able to overcome and even be inferior to the ARM reference chip is a shame. 300 people working on a project that ended up drowned in their own efforts.

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                                        I have not seen any custom ARM design approach in Huawei. They are using standard ARM cores.