By 2021 Samsung will have the first SoC with AMD RDNA and they plan to go much further

Robert Sole August 4, 2019

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During the Q2 2019 accounts presentation, Samsung announced that the agreement for AMD RDNA technology will not only go to smartphone SoCs.

A few weeks ago it was announced by Samsung and AMD that they had reached an agreement to integrate RDNA into SoC for smartphones. Samsung wants to bring this graphic design to its smartphone chips. Now, during Samsung's Q2019 XNUMX earnings call, more data has been released about the plans. AMD RDNA technology It is not only used to create smartphone SoCs.

AMD's RDNA appears to be a highly powerful and forward-thinking solution and Samsung has seen its potential. There is still a long way to go before we see that they are capable and that is that the first chips will still take two years to arrive. What the South Korean company has said is that they will not only be implemented on smartphones, they want to go further.

Samsung in two years wants to have a SoC with AMD RDNA technology

AMD's "GPU rush" could help Samsung improve its presence in notebook and other markets. Currently, the implementation of RDNA would give you a competitive advantage over the competition. Of course, AMD will make a nice pinch for royalties. Without a doubt, these revenues will help AMD improve significantly.

The agreement between the two parties, it is evident, that it will benefit both companies. Samsung on the one hand will have chips with a powerful integrated graphics that it otherwise could not have. AMD for its part will get extra income without spending on chip manufacturing.

“To answer your second question about our partnership with AMD. As you know, AMD has been a leader especially in the GPU area since the early days of the PC market and is one of the leaders in terms of technology. We believe that with this partnership we will be able to take advantage of AMD's competitiveness in the GPU to improve the performance not only of our mobile SOCs, but also of other applications

"But considering the time it typically takes to research IT technology, we expect GPU technology to start to be adopted in products that will be released in about two years," Samsung's call was said during the call.

Source: OC3D