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What, their chips aren't good enough for their own phones, but they think they're good enough for dedicated laptops?
by AdmiralAsshat 5y ago
What, their chips aren't good enough for their own phones, but they think they're good enough for dedicated laptops?
- twobitshifter 5y agoThey already run a Samsung desktop called “Dex” on their phones.
- nullify88 5y agoThey also had Linux on Dex which was a full Linux desktop environment. Unfortunately it never left beta and was killed off.
- wvenable 5y agoI think ultimately they couldn't make it compatible with Android 10 and that lead to its demise.
- geogra4 5y agoDex isn't bad. I use it from time to time. It's really not much different from a chromebook. I'd use a dex laptop if it was available.
- kube-system 5y agoYeah, this phone: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/7821516 https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/7821516 Probably has plenty more power than this laptop: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/7185745 https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/7185745
- jeroenhd 5y agoThat's an interesting point, actually. Samsung doesn't need to compete with the M1, it only needs to compete with Celerons and Athlons to make a profit. As far as most consumers are concerned, even Exynos chips may be worth it for desktop use because they can use the extensive video acceleration support that mobile GPUs have which many desktop chips still lack. Sadly, the Windows world is far from ARM-compatible. Few people install applications through the Windows Store, and bringing Linux to the masses with an alternative, low-power laptop processor will probably end up failing as well. I fear that the lack of software support will prevent Samsung for replicating Apple's success. Maybe Samsung can stuff these chips into Chromebooks, those provide a limited yet cross-platform operating system that some markets are getting used to already. There are plenty of ARM Chromebooks out there, so I'm not sure how well Samsung could compete in that space.
- 3836293648 5y agoThey do use their own chips in their own phones. Just not in every market
- moooo99 5y agoI think the original comment was referring to the initial backlash Samsung received after putting inferior Exynos Chips into non-US devices, that were significantly less performant while drawing more power than the devices with the Qualcomm counterpart.
- ripdog 5y agoThe latest exynos chip replaced Samsung's custom CPU designs with stock ARM ones, presumably because exynos variants of the S20 lagged far behind the snapdragon variants in performance and battery life.
- zibzab 5y agoThis could be temporary thing, even qualcomm has done it in past but gone back to own designs after 1-2 generations. My guess is that they needed the engineers for AMD GPU integration and ARM happened to have a good design at that time so the choice was simple.
- willtim 5y agoThey ditched their own inferior custom core design and now use ARM Cortex X1.
- wmf 5y agoThe previous N generations of Exynos weren't good but this time will be different. Because AMD is magic sauce or something.
- gostsamo 5y agoThey don't sell exynos phones in the US to avoid patent wars with Qualcom.