Some time ago, rumors about Samsung's intention to abandon the use of graphics performance ARM Mali in favor of proprietary solutions were very persistent. Now, according to SamMobile resource, citing its own sources, Samsung is considering licensing AMD or NVIDIA graphics solutions to integrate them into their own processors for mobile devices.
Good luck, if you can talk about it at this stage of negotiations, succeeded in discussing these plans with NVIDIA. The latter have repeatedly hinted that it is ready to create a "custom-made" solutions for third-party customers, and license their graphic solutions. Reference was even the first of the graphics architecture available for licensing - it was not the latest in these times Kepler. However, before concrete steps in this sphere NVIDIA never reached, and it is the only source of income in the direction of the royalties - Intel quarterly payments in the amount of $ 66 million.
AMD Company may cooperate with Samsung over deployed. Firstly, the latter has experience in the manufacture of serial products AMD and GlobalFoundries is a close partner of Samsung. Secondly, AMD opened the search for new customers in the "custom" direction, and processors with ARM architecture in the sense of the company's plans are not excluded.
Colleagues say that the mobile processor Samsung Exynos family with support for AMD architecture developed HSA will be released next year. In addition, the South Korean giant is trying to get rid of dependence on Qualcomm and "dial-up" direction, seeking to implement support for CDMA networks on their own. In September next year, Samsung will begin testing in the development of existing CDMA networks. Perhaps, Galaxy S9 smartphones will be already equipped with a modem Samsung proprietary solutions.