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Are you sure about Exynos? They announced the 1080 just a couple of weeks ago and the 2100 is expected next year.
by jcheng 6y ago
Are you sure about Exynos? They announced the 1080 just a couple of weeks ago and the 2100 is expected next year.
- vetinari 6y agoThis is from wikipedia (under "Exynos"), so apply the appropriate amount of salt: On October 1, 2019, rumors emerged that Samsung had laid off their custom CPU teams at SARC.[21][22][23] On November 1, 2019, Samsung filed a WARN letter with the Texas Workforce Commission, notifying of upcoming layoffs of their SARC CPU team and termination of their custom CPU development.[24] SARC and ACL will still continue development of custom SoC, AI, and GPU.[25]
- wmf 6y agoYou misunderstood what that means. Samsung is continuing to develop Exynos SoCs using stock Arm CPU cores and AMD GPU cores. This will require fewer people hence the layoff.
- vetinari 6y agoExactly; they do not have their cores anymore, they are going to use ARM's Cortex. So their SoC will be always average at best, by definition. They won't be able to make anything exceptional.
- andor 6y agoHiSilicon's Kirin chips use Cortex microarchitecture and are very competitive. I didn't follow recent releases, but I remember that the Kirin 970 was way ahead of the Snapdragon and Exynos chips at the time, both in terms of performance and power efficiency.
- fomine3 6y agoHuawei often releases new Kirin SoC on October with Mate series meanwhile Qualcomm reseases flagship Snapdragon 8xx on December, so Kirin outperform latest Snapdragon that released on last year.
- GekkePrutser 6y agoSamsung stopped developing their custom cores. They will still continue making Exynos, but with reference design ARM cores.
- vetinari 6y agoYes, and their SoCs will be as average as Cortex reference implementation can be. They won't be able to make M1-like SoC.