Samsung Has Assembled A Team To Develop Custom CPU Cores To Take On Apple And Eventually Qualcomm, But The First Design Still A Few Years Away

The failure of the Exynos 2200 eventually forced Samsung to re-think its smartphone chip strategy, and according to a new report, the Korean giant has assembled a team of talented individuals to develop custom CPU cores. This move should not only help the company to reduce reliance on ARM’s CPU designs but also allow the company to have head-on competition with the likes of Apple and, eventually, Qualcomm.

Unfortunately, Samsung’s first custom CPU designs are not expected to arrive before 2027

Samsung’s custom CPU designs will find their way to smartphones and, eventually, tablets, and laptops, which is a similar strategy followed by Apple. According to Business Korea, the company has hired Rahul Tuli, a former AMD executive, and developer. Sadly, as much as we would love to see these CPU cores in action quickly, it appears that not everything can happen according to our expectations.

One industry insider stated that if the development process is successful, the first family of Samsung custom CPU cores will be used in 2027. That is a whole four years of development work, and before that, we also have to see the new custom SoC that is said to be tailor-made for a future Galaxy S series. As for this custom chipset, we should not expect it before 2025, so quite a bit of waiting is in order before Samsung has any skin in the game.

Samsung stopped using its custom Mongoose CPU cores after the Galaxy S20's launch

For those unfamiliar with Samsung’s chip development history, this has not been the firm’s first rodeo at making custom CPU cores. Those earlier cores were codenamed Mongoose, but given that they underwhelmed in every aspect, Samsung halted development after the M5 cores, which were a part of the Exynos 990 SoC that was found in the Galaxy S20 family that launched back in 2020.

Apple continues to be several generations ahead of the competition, and with Qualcomm expected to announce its first custom CPU designs next year, Samsung has a mountain to climb in catching up to its rivals. Hopefully, the previous commercial failures should have taught a valuable lesson to Samsung, which may be why the first design is not scheduled to roll out until 2027, giving the manufacturer sufficient time to do multiple ‘trial and error’ runs. Over the course of these years, it could also be working with AMD to improve the GPU side of things.

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