‘Samsung will come with its own GPU for smartphone socs next year’

Samsung is rumored to be working on its own GPU as part of a smartphone soc. It should be ready by mid-2015 and will then likely make an appearance in the company’s Exynos SOCs.

The rumors come from the Korean branch of Zdnet, which is known to have sources within Samsung. According to the site, Samsung is almost finished developing its own GPU and will make its appearance in mobile phones in mid-2015. Incidentally, no further details have been disclosed about the specifications of the GPU in question, which is likely to be used as part of Samsung’s Exynos socs.

If the rumors are true, Samsung will announce the GPU during the Solid-State Circuits Conference, which will be held in San Francisco next February. If the rumors about an entry in mid-2015 are correct, it is possible that Samsung chooses to build in the GPU in the successor to the Galaxy Note 4. The successor to the Galaxy S5 would have a Snapdragon 810-soc from Qualcomm, Sammobile previously claimed.

In its Exynos socs, Samsung currently uses Mali GPUs, which are designed by ARM. Incidentally, there have been rumors for some time that Samsung also wants to develop the application processor itself for its Exynos socs, for which ARM technology is also used for the time being. The existing Cortex cores of ARM that are now used in Exynos-socs would eventually be replaced by their own design.