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Latest ARM news
Here you will find the latest news and most recent developments on the ARM, with regular updates and all the information you need.
Is Samsung-AMD GPU collab for Exynos chips in danger?
Last year, AMD and Samsung announced that they’ve co-developed an RDNA2-based GPU for Exynos chipsets. And the first chipset with such a GPU is the Exynos 2200, which debuted earlier this year with the Galaxy S22 series. However, the AMD-Samsung collaboration might be in danger, and we might not see AMD GPUs inside Exynos chipsets […]
- By Asif Iqbal Shaik
- 7 months ago
Next-gen chips from MediaTek, Qualcomm could surpass Apple’s A16 SoC in GPU performance
After a series of disappointments with its Exynos chipsets, Samsung has reportedly decided to use the Snapdragon chipset exclusively in the Galaxy S23. But how good will that Snapdragon chipset be? Will it be as good as Apple’s latest chip used in the iPhone 14 Pro? Well, it looks like it could be even better. […]
- By Asif Iqbal Shaik
- 7 months ago
MediaTek’s Dimensity 1080 chipset brings 200MP camera support to budget phones
Mid-range smartphones these days not only boast good performance but also come with high-resolution cameras. And most likely, the chip inside such mid-range or budget smartphones is the one from MediaTek. After releasing some top-tier chipsets, MediaTek finally unveiled the Dimensity 1080, which is the successor to last year’s popular Dimensity 920 processor. The MediaTek […]
- By Sagar Naresh
- 8 months ago
Softbank has reportedly not asked Samsung to invest in ARM
There has been a lot of speculation about the future of British chip designer ARM after NVIDIA’s deal to acquire the company fell through due to anti-trust concerns. Japan’s Softbank owns ARM and it has since been considering several options including an IPO. The other option is to put together a consortium of the industry’s […]
- By Adnan Farooqui
- 8 months ago
SoftBank CEO wants a strategic alliance between Samsung and ARM
We recently reported that although Samsung and SK Hynix were among the front runners in the acquisition of the UK-based chip designer ARM, Samsung may back out of this race because of antitrust issues and the increased acquisition price. The latest report now suggests that SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is seeking a strategic alliance between SoftBank-owned […]
- By Sagar Naresh
- 8 months ago
SoftBank founder to meet Lee Jae-yong next month for possible ARM deal
Samsung’s Lee Jae-yong will meet with SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son in Seoul next month. Mr. Son will visit South Korea’s capital city in October, and the media is questioning whether the meeting with Samsung’s leader might have anything to do with a possible acquisition of the British chip designer ARM. During an interview at the […]
- By Mihai Matei
- 8 months ago
Samsung’s acquisition of ARM highly unlikely because of antitrust issues
The latest report by BusinessKorea suggests that Samsung won’t be interested in the race to acquire ARM for multiple reasons. Apparently, Nvidia failed to acquire ARM, and it was touted that Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, Qualcomm, and Intel would be next in line to complete the UK chip designer’s acquisition. While ARM’s scope of business is […]
- By Sagar Naresh
- 8 months ago
SamMobile Podcast Episode 13: A new rugged Galaxy phone enters the arena
SamMobile Podcast Episode 13 is live, and for a change, this week’s topics don’t revolve around Samsung’s upcoming foldable phones or One UI 5 update. Instead, our YouTube host Benjamin expands upon Samsung’s new rugged phone, Sony’s surprising 1-inch mobile camera sensor, and ARM’s latest Cortex cores. After a string of leaks, Samsung finally unveiled […]
- By Mihai Matei
- 11 months ago
Galaxy S23 could feature ARM’s next-gen CPU cores with improved performance, efficiency
ARM has unveiled its next-generation CPU and GPU cores that will be used in 2023 Android smartphones, at least the flagship ones. The Cortex-X3, Cortex-A715, and the refreshed Cortex-A510 CPU cores could be used in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, Exynos 2300, and MediaTek’s next-generation flagship chipset. Cortex-X3 offers 25% higher peak performance, Cortex-A715 has […]
- By Asif Iqbal Shaik
- 11 months ago
Qualcomm wants to buy ARM and it may need Samsung’s help
In 2020, rumors claimed that Samsung was one of the many companies interested in acquiring British chipmaker ARM. Samsung remains open to mergers and acquisitions in the chip industry as it seeks to consolidate its hold on the market. It was believed at that time that even if Samsung doesn’t buy ARM outright, it might […]
- By Adnan Farooqui
- 12 months ago
Is this why Samsung’s Exynos chips overheat?
Samsung Galaxy smartphones, and Android devices in general, have become crazy powerful. The debate concerning Samsung’s Exynos and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips seems neverending, and this can lead to healthy competition. But regardless of which solution is better — Snapdragon or Exynos — they’re both suffering from similar issues. And because these problems occur with chipsets […]
- By Mihai Matei
- 1 year ago
NVIDIA’s failure to buy ARM gives Samsung a huge opportunity
Samsung hasn’t bought any big companies since it acquired Harman International in 2016 for about $8 billion. It’s not like the company wasn’t in a position to do so. It has over $110 billion in cash sitting in the bank. Samsung wants to spend that money, too. The company has repeatedly said over the past […]
- By Adnan Farooqui
- 1 year ago
Qualcomm and Microsoft exclusivity deal ending soon, will open opportunities for Samsung
It was reported a few months ago that Samsung is working on more powerful Exynos processors for laptops and Chromebooks. While Chromebooks use a variety of ARM-based processors from multiple chipset vendors, ARM-based Windows laptops only feature Qualcomm chipsets, and there could be a reason for that. According to a report from XDA Developers, Microsoft and […]
- By Asif Iqbal Shaik
- 2 years ago
Your next Samsung Chromebook could have an NVIDIA RTX GPU
The Samsung Galaxy Book Odyssey is the world’s first laptop to utilize Nvidia’s RTX 3050 Ti GPU, but it looks like we might see RTX technology across a wider variety of notebook types soon. Nvidia has recently demonstrated RTX and other high-end graphical technologies running on the Linux platform with ARM hardware and revealed how […]
- By Mihai Matei
- 2 years ago
Could Samsung turn to custom CPU architectures again for future Exynos chips?
Samsung has had a rocky past when it comes to its Exynos chips. Due to performance, power efficiency, and thermal issues, the company had to stop the development of its custom CPU core designs and disband the entire team that developed those designs. It recently switched back to stock ARM CPU cores with the Exynos […]
- By Asif Iqbal Shaik
- 2 years ago