Samsung to Rival Apple Silicon by Developing Custom PC and Mobile Processors

[theluggage]

The story says “the first version of the Galaxy Chip is highly likely to have ARM CPUs.” Which is indicating that their following versions of the Galaxy chip is likely to NOT have ARM CPU’s.

It does sound a bit woolly but I think what they mean is that the first version will use CPU core designs licensed from ARM (like most mobile phone ARM chips) while for later versions Samsung may develop their own core designs, but still running the ARM instruction set.

For comparison: Apple Silicon uses the ARM instruction set but the cores were designed by Apple.

 

[sidewinder3000]

Samsung plans to rival Apple silicon

Classic clickbait. Samsung won’t “rival“ Apple until they reach the level where they start producing chips, in volume, that compare favorably to Apple’s chips. Until then the sentence should read “Samsung is attempting to compete with Apple Silicon…”

 

[Matsamoto]

Exynos doesn't really have a good reputation, many European customers of Samsung's phones are disappointed that they have to use phones with Exynos. Compared to Qualcomm's Snapdragon, Exynos is mostly inferior option. (Samsung doesn't sell Snapdragon Galaxy S phones in Europe at all).

Maybe something will change, we will see.

Now they do.
The S23 lineup is all made of SD🙂

But before the S23 there was an another story.

 

[Nick_P]

I wonder if ARM itself will copy Apple and make a unified system (cpu, gpu, memory) to license to PC vendors. Intel and AMD could do the same (plus the manufacturing). That might be the quickest and most uniform way to switch the PC side to ARM.

 

[Analog Kid]

Classic clickbait. Samsung won’t “rival“ Apple until they reach the level where they start producing chips, in volume, that compare favorably to Apple’s chips. Until then the sentence should read “Samsung is attempting to compete with Apple Silicon…”

Isn't that what a plan means? Attempting without a plan would be foolhardy. "How will you rival Apple Silicon?" "We'll figure it out as we go...". Actually, even that's a plan, just not a good one. No plan is guaranteed to succeed, some times things don't go according to plan. Best laid plans, and such.

 

[svish]

Good to see competition. Samsung will have a lot of work ahead to compete with Apple Silicon.

 

[Gengar]

Hey, this is good news for the industry.

 

[Gasu E.]

Do they have one original idea that Apple didn’t perfect first?

OK, I get it-- satire, right?

 

[Bodhitree]

If last time they didn’t manage to equal Qualcomm’s Snapdragon cores, how do they think they will equal the Nuvia-powered new designs, let alone whereever Apple Silicon will be in a few years? Just having a hard time seeing this happening.

 

[lee27]

The Samsung hate in this thread and across all the die hard Apple cheerleaders is embarrassing. Guess all you would rather have Apple be the only player and suck every penny out of you all, huh?

If competition didn't exist, none of you would have your precious iPhones. Just ask Steve Jobs what competition meant back in 1997....

Christ, the comments here are pathetic and cringe.

Totaly agree!!!
The more competition the better

 

[adib]

Interesting. With Android (mobile) and Samsung Dex (desktop), a competitor to the iOS + macOS combo would be viable.

 

[bviktor]

Good. The less Qualcomm, the better.

 

[robbietop]

Everything you said applies to consumer pc. The state in the corporate world is completely different. Business is learning the hard way that you have to design and protect your data. That’s job number one. Corporate leaders are going to go back to the beginning. Data processed in data centers and sent out to employers using tiny little dumb terminals. Don’t worry the players are going to be the same people that they are now.

Not if everyone starts making custom ARM64 SoC, why would anyone wanna waste billions on Intel if Google has a chip and Apple has a chip and Samsung has a chip and Qualcomm/Broadcom has a custom chip? Why waste any money on horribly inefficient x86 lines?