Rumor: Samsung may be hiring ex Apple and AMD engineers to design a custom CPU

18 June 2021
The company is reportedly not happy with the performance of ARM's Cortex-X series and is looking to design its own cores again.

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  • 19 Jun 2021

AnonD-1003038, 19 Jun 2021What better deal? The plastic back on their vanilla flagshi... moreJust because you don't drop your phone and break it doesn't mean others don't.
get a case if it bothers you so much.
Glass should not be on the back.of a a phone
an accident waiting to happen.
It's just stupid but hey most care more about the screen them the backside anyways, if that's the price I jafto pay to get a superior screen in happy to do that.

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    • 19 Jun 2021

    AnonD-1003038, 19 Jun 2021What better deal? The plastic back on their vanilla flagshi... moreI use a case on my phone so it doesn't bother me at all
    Even if I didn't have a case it would not bother me.
    Plastic does not break nearly as easy as glass the whole trend on making phones in glass was according to me pretty dumb in the first place and shorten the life span of a product
    Or add extra costs when you need to repair not just the front of the phone but the back as well after a drop.
    I spend my time staring at the front side of my phone
    So if the screen is Better and comes white smaller cutout
    That's where my money goes.
    Don't like don't buy pretty simple
    Don't get so upset in the 3nd of the day it's just companies trying to manipulate you to spend money on them
    They don't care about you.

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      • 19 Jun 2021

      Can only be the King Jim Keller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Keller_(engineer)

        Everybody below the comment section
        Apple Vs Samsung

        Meanwhile me :
        Goodbye Dragon you were good but not affordable and a Us spy.

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          • 19 Jun 2021

          Anonymous, 19 Jun 2021No you clearly wrong, i can get a S21 Ultra for cheaper tha... moreWhat better deal? The plastic back on their vanilla flagships? LMAO. No thanks. I was thinking of going with Galaxy S series after my iPhone's "life" runs out, but I sure as hell don't want a 800€ phone that has plastic back. It's a pathetic profit increasing move that's s**ttier than stuff Apple is pulling. At least all Apple phones are all metal and glass, even the cheapo iPhone SE regardless of how dated its design is. And now Samsung will put even more plastic junk even on a 1 tier higher Plus model for S22. What's next, S23 Ultra with plastic back? It's pathetic and I'm never going to support that crap.

          It's also funny how everyone calls iPhones a "rip off" just because all you do is look at specs and call it a day. Ever thought specs on paper don't necessarily mean superior experience? The "so called" 720p display on XR that I have is nowhere near as annoying as the easily scratchable plastic junk on back of vanilla Galaxy S21. The IPS "720p" display gives me image quality where I just don't care. Phone getting all worn out on edges when normally putting it in and out o pocket would drive me insane. And I know how quickly plastic back gets scratched when you perfectly normally place phone on the table. And everyone is raving how glass can always shatter or break. Gee, why don't we have plastic displays again if they are so brilliant? We had those and no one wants them anymore. I mean, they break just the same as the back. Yet everyone wants glass display, but not glass back (Android fanboys anyway defending s**tty design practices by cheap greedy companies like Samsung). Lets all go back to Nokia 5230 design. Plastic back, plastic display, plastic frame. No? Why not? Plastic can't shatter yo!

          If you're all so clumsy that you shatter every phone you have, well, I don't have that issue. I had bunch of glass sandwich phones and I haven't shattered, cracked or otherwise damaged glass on a single one. I've had plenty of plastic back phones in early days that looked like absolute garbage after just 1 year of putting them in pocket or on table. Glass NEVER has such issues and even if back is full of micro scratches, because I prefer white phones, the scratches aren't even visible. On plastic, they'd be all over the place.

            As for the custom chip they need costum os

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              • 19 Jun 2021

              JohnPieux, 19 Jun 2021Samsung makes Apple look like a bargain.No you clearly wrong, i can get a S21 Ultra for cheaper than an Iphone 12 Pro Max and my s21 will have more storage and come with better deals when you buy it from stores. Samsungs devices still are way better bargains than Apples no one will beat Apple when it comes to ripping off customers

                PMKLR3m, 18 Jun 2021Lol no apple always was overpriced crap. What can they do ... moreSamsung makes Apple look like a bargain.

                  ProMaster96, 18 Jun 2021How long do you think apple leads the performance charts? W... moreLol A14 is literally a cut down M1. Please stop blabbering if you don't know sh*t

                    Anonymous, 18 Jun 20211st you're comparing m1 to bionic lmao & second yo... moreThe a14 chip is a cut down down m1 chip with 6 cpu cores instead of 8 and 4 gpu cores instead of 8.

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                      • 19 Jun 2021

                      Good idea by samsung. It is trying to do something instead of just using chips from qualcomm.

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                        • 19 Jun 2021

                        Anonymous, 18 Jun 20211st you're comparing m1 to bionic lmao & second yo... moreLOL learn to read. The guy was comparing bionic with snapdragon and exynos while saying the possibilities of M1 adoption on iphone. I say the chance is high, they might cut some cores to manage the heat. Still it doesn't change the fact Apple SOC are powerful enough to shake Samsung and Qualcomm. That is how they embrace Apple former engineers or AMD.
                        Competition is always good thing as it breed brand new tech, otherwise we would stuck for a decade of stagnation like in PC industry before Ryzen came out.

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                          • 19 Jun 2021

                          Anonymous, 18 Jun 2021Lol Apple wasn't a benchmark to beat. Those engineers ... moreNice joke

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                            • Anonymous
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                            • 19 Jun 2021

                            they try again after stopping mongoose

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                              • 19 Jun 2021

                              I don't understand how you can have these master engineers working for a competitor and expect them not to carry over the MASSIVE and costly baggage of your own company's R&D.

                              You would think that awareness of optimal (thermal/IPC) layouts is a potentially competition crushing advantage you wouldn't want passed on.

                              How in the world is this even dealt with in the microchip world? Seems like the patent system could be too easily bypassed with the introduction of a few relatively superficial modifications/optimisations.

                                good, Samsung high executives finally got it,, they should've done it years ago,, like disband mangoo team and invite master chip designers from other company since Samsung have money but not time.

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                                  • Anonymous
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                                  • 18 Jun 2021

                                  IpsDisplay, 18 Jun 2021The cortex X1 is a horrible core man I have not seen such a... moreGeekbenchmark Single scored said otherwise is superior compared to ARM design but morè hotter and draw power larger its more suit for tablet or notebook than Smartphone.

                                    AnonD-889996, 18 Jun 2021Apple M1's biggest thread is Apple's own OS. Just... more+1.
                                    The iPad truly needs a better OS among other things

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                                      ProMaster96, 18 Jun 2021How long do you think apple leads the performance charts? W... more1st you're comparing m1 to bionic lmao & second you saying as if apple is new to game & getting ignored maybe from past 2 years.. you ok? They're better than anything but they're a bit too proud of themselves so don't want to even fit a proper cooling mech in their actually super-efficient bionic chips that draw 30% less power in total consumption still devices gets hotter than androids.. in short : they're best but incompetent

                                        I hope this rumour is true. I have been saying Samsung should do this, for the last 3 years or more.