Samsung said on Thursday that it has signed a multi-year extension with AMD on its licensing agreement, giving the South Korean tech giant access to the US chipmaker’s Radeon graphics IP.
The pair signed an initial agreement in 2019 for AMD to license custom graphics IPs based on the RDNA graphics architecture to Samsung for use in smartphones and other mobile devices.
Since then, Samsung has used AMD Radeon graphics solutions on the Exynos SoC, which powers their Galaxy smartphones.
As for the extension, which will include multiple generations of AMD Radeon to more Exynos SoCs, the Korean tech giant says it will allow it to bring “console-level graphics and optimized power consumption”. digitized” for more mobile devices.
Samsung recently introduced ray tracing on its mobile processors using AMD’s platform. Last year, the Korean tech giant introduced Xclipsemobile graphics processing unit using the AMD RDNA 2 architecture.
Samsung’s announcement shows that it hasn’t given up on further development of its Exynos SoC and quells concerns about the future of its partnership with AMD, which has shown mixed results over the past few years. past year.
SoC Exynos 2200 introduced on Galaxy S22 smartphone, advertised for use by Samsung AMD RDNA 2 GPU, faced widely reported overheating problems.
The problem seems to be partly responsible for Samsung using most of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset on the recently launched Galaxy S23 smartphone.
