Samsung mentioned on Thursday that it has signed a multi-year extension with AMD on their licensing settlement which supplies the South Korean tech large entry to the US chipmaker’s Radeon graphics IP.
The pair signed the unique settlement again in 2019 for AMD to license its customized graphics IP primarily based on RDNA graphics structure to Samsung to be used in smartphones and different cell gadgets.
Samsung has been utilizing the AMD Radeon graphics options on its Exynos SoCs, which energy its Galaxy smartphones, since then.
On the extension, which can cowl a number of generations of AMD Radeon to extra Exynos SoCs, the South Korean tech large mentioned it is going to permit it to deliver “console-level graphics and optimized energy consumption” to extra cell gadgets.
Samsung just lately launched ray tracing on its cell processors utilizing AMD’s platform. Final yr, the South Korean tech large launched Xclipse, its cell graphics processing unit that makes use of AMD RDNA 2 structure.
Samsung’s announcement reveals that it has not given up on additional creating its Exynos SoCs and quelling fears about the way forward for its partnership with AMD, which has proven blended outcomes for the previous couple of years.
The Exynos 2200 SoC launched on Galaxy S22 smartphones, which Samsung touted using AMD RDNA 2 GPU, confronted extensively reported overheating issues.
The difficulty appears partially answerable for Samsung’s use of largely Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipsets on its just lately launched Galaxy S23 smartphones.