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Samsung confirmed last month that it is working with AMD to create a next-gen mobile GPU that will be launched in the next flagship product. The company hasn't specified exactly what type of device this ‘next flagship product' will be but most Samsung fans assumed it's a Galaxy smartphone.
It turns out that the Exynos 2200 SoC could be part of Samsung's longer-term plans to challenge Qualcomm in the portable PC segment.
Samsung's mysterious Exynos 2200-powered Windows 10 laptop will apparently lay down the foundation of the company's long-term plans to challenge Qualcomm in the ARM notebook market. Samsung has previously released a few ARM Windows 10 notebooks of its own, but they were powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipsets.
With ARM-based Windows 10 notebooks seemingly increasing in popularity, Samsung may want to capture a larger share of the ARM-based PC chipset market and / or cut its dependency on Qualcomm, so the AMD-powered Exynos 2200 SoC could be the answer.
The Exynos 2100 chipset that was released with the Galaxy S21 series was a step in the right direction for Samsung's mobile AP arm. It ditched the custom cores in favor of ARM cores, and many fans expect the next-gen solution to replace the Mali GPU with an AMD-made graphics chip.
The Exynos 2200 SoC is said to achieve exactly that, though exact specifications are unknown. More to the point at hand, it's unclear whether the so-called Exynos 2200 SoC will be Samsung's only AMD-powered high-end chipset to debut this year — and therefore power both smartphones and laptops alike — or if said chipset is designed specifically for notebooks and Samsung's planning another AMD-SoC for the mobile segment.
Whatever the case may be, rumors suggest that we should be getting the opportunity to test Samsung's first Exynos chipset equipped with AMD graphics, in one form or another, before the end of 2021.
Mihai is a blogger and column writer at SamMobile. His first Samsung phone was an A800 which took a lot of beating, and a part of him still misses the novelty of the clamshell design. In his free time, he enjoys watching shows, documentaries, and stand-up comedy; listening to music, taking walks, and occasionally playing old(er) video games.
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