Samsung's smartphone division is said to have set up its own processor development team apart from Samsung LSI, which currently provides the Exynos processors. Next year, only processors from Qualcomm are to be used in the company's flagships.
Samsung is preparing a fourth way for the processors in the Galaxy smartphones, such as The Elec reports from Korea. Accordingly, a new team for the development of processors was founded within the “Mobile Experience” (MX) division, which is responsible for the development of smartphones.
The new AP team (Application Processor) could optimize the processors developed by Samsung LSI (large-scale integration), i.e. the actual chip division of Samsung, for use in the Galaxy smartphones, but the development of its own processors is more likely. it says from Korea. The smartphone division currently obtains processors primarily from Samsung LSI, Qualcomm and MediaTek. Own chips from the MX division would therefore be a fourth option.
Galaxy S23 probably only with Snapdragon
In the coming year, the Galaxy S23 series is to be equipped exclusively with Qualcomm's system-on-a-chips for the first time, after the Exynos chips were used in previous years, at least in Europe. But there have also been years in which even the South Korean version was equipped with Snapdragon processors, which is said to have upset the Samsung LSI division. Although Samsung operates its own divisions independently of one another, the developers are somewhat proud when the LSI solutions are used in-house.
Last month, Qualcomm presented the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (benchmarks), the processor that is probably used for the Galaxy S23 family. CEO Cristiano Amon has already said several times to investors that only Qualcomm will get a chance, but the final confirmation will probably not come until the beginning of February.
Clock rates should be higher for the Samsung version
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 runs under the model number SM8550-AB, but Samsung should get the specially adapted version SM8550-AC , which is said to have a higher clock for the prime core based on the Cortex-X3 and a faster GPU. The CPU's top clock is said to climb from just under 3.2 GHz to 3.36 GHz, while the GPU is said to go from 680 MHz to 719 MHz. A summary of the latest rumors provides more information about the features of the Galaxy S23.