Monday, May 10th 2021
Samsung's Apple M1-rivaling Exynos SoC Powering Notebooks by H2-2021
Samsung is readying a powerful Arm-based SoC rivaling Apple's groundbreaking M1 silicon, under its Exynos brand. This chip is being designed for thin-and-light notebooks, as well as premium tablets, essentially letting Samsung target Apple's MacBook (M1) and iPad Pro form-factors. Unlike Apple, Samsung won't be burdened with having to rally its ISV partners to develop specifically for its hardware; the company is preparing to launch notebooks in the second half of 2021 that are powered by a Windows 10 on Arm derivative. This would give the notebook access to all of the applications already developed for the OS, including Office and certain Adobe Creativity Suite apps. The M1-rivaling Exynos chip will pack the latest-generation 64-bit Arm CPU cores, as well as an integrated GPU designed by AMD.
Source:
Korea Economic Daily
18 Comments on Samsung's Apple M1-rivaling Exynos SoC Powering Notebooks by H2-2021
notices that it also includes an AMD gpu too...
*laughs* samsung thinks it will be in stock... :roll:
did someone forget to send a memo to Samsung letting them know TSMC doesn't have time for them? last I checked Samsung can't make AMD gpu's...
TSMC doesn't even have enough time to make the chips automakers need, why would they set aside time for this little laptop in second half of 2021...
Having said that, I don't believe that Samsung can match the M1 in terms of performance even if they collaborated with AMD. At least not in this generation or the next. In actual gaming performance, the M1's iGPU is almost 2.5x faster than the fastest iGPU from AMD and Intel at this point in time, and that's in games that are not optimized for M1 chip. CPU wise, Taking what is available from ARM this year, and compare it with the CPU in the M1 chip, the results are clearly in favor of the M1 CPU.
But before saying anything, just consider that no chip manufacturer are making the fastest chip they could come up with. Design is all about balancing all the thing you need to deal with. Power, manufacturing cost, Development time, Chip audience, Release date, etc.)
All chips are made by balancing many factor and are compromise.
But anyway. Is it that surprising if Samsung release in a year a CPU that will compete with a CPU that will be on the market for 2 years+? i don't think so. The funny things is all these pseudo CPU engineer said that apple could never match x86, then now it's done, nobody else can? lol
In this kind of the hill tech game, you are never safe at the top no matter who you are and you can't sit on your game for too long. Intel, Nvidia, AMD, Apple, Qualcomm, all of them can fall if they don't perform.