Samsung and AMD sign multi-year extension to use Radeon graphics on Exynos SoCs

Samsung on Thursday shared that it has signed a multi-year extension with AMD on their licensing settlement, giving the South Korean tech large entry to the U.S. chipmaker’s Radeon graphics IP.

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The pair signed the unique settlement again in 2019 for AMD to license its customized graphics IP based mostly on RDNA graphics structure to Samsung to be used in smartphones and different cellular units. Since then, Samsung has been utilizing the AMD Radeon graphics options on its Exynos SoCs, which energy Galaxy smartphones each within the U.S. and worldwide markets.

On the extension, which can cowl a number of generations of AMD Radeon-tagged Exynos SoCs, the South Korean tech large mentioned it’s going to now be capable to convey “console-level graphics and optimized energy consumption” to extra cellular units.

Samsung just lately launched ray tracing on its cellular processors utilizing AMD’s platform. Final yr, the corporate launched Xclipse, its cellular graphics processing unit that makes use of AMD RDNA 2 structure.

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Samsung’s announcement exhibits that it has not given up on additional growing its Exynos SoCs and quelling fears about the way forward for its partnership with AMD, which has proven combined outcomes for the previous couple of years.

The Exynos 2200 SoC launched on Galaxy S22 smartphones, which Samsung touted with AMD RDNA 2 GPUs, confronted widespread overheating issues.