| Pemalite said: The license agreement seems to stipulate that the I.P sharing goes both ways. |
It seems to be Samsung paying up AMD for their GPU designs ...
AMD's GL drivers are straight up ugly from the pre-GCN days so that's why AMD were the biggest lobbyists for pushing the industry towards DX12/Vulkan ...
| Pemalite said:
We don't know the extent of how Samsung is going to leverage AMD's patents, Samsung has been working on a GPU for Exynos for the good part of 7+ years, whether they threw that design out and adopted AMD's remains to be seen or if Samsung is just licensing AMD's patents to protect themselves, who knows. |
Samsung's GPU designs aren't coming to fruition and likely never will because they have too many damn things going on. They already design their own custom ARM cores but they also deal with logic, DRAM, NAND fabrication and they produce OLED displays as well so there's no point in them trying to chase another market to be self sufficient when they face fierce competition from Apple, Intel, TSMC, SK Hynix, Micron, LG and more to come like BOE or YMTC ...
There comes a certain point where businesses will scale down their efficiency as they become too big so there has to be a limit where Samsung cannot expand anymore because it's not safe to rapidly expand your business like Intel has because otherwise you're going to have failures start piling on even within their core competencies like we see with Intel's 10nm logic fabrication technology since there has to cuts in resources in other segments to keep up ...
The world as we know it not becoming more generalized but it's becoming more specialized! It's naive on Samsung's part to continue expanding ...
Samsung has to use Snapdragon in North America because of Qualcomm's heavy handed licensing terms which involved CDMA technology. US carriers such as Verizon and Sprint are still operating networks which use CDMA technology so mobile device manufacturers have no choice but to accept Qualcomm's modems if they want their phones to be able to work on all North American carriers ...
Sprint isn't going to shutdown their CDMA based networks up until the end of 2022 ... (hopefully, mobile chipset designers won't have to pander to patent encumbered technology like CDMA)
| Pemalite said:
nVidia doesn't get design wins in mobile phones, they are irrelevant in the mobile phone space. |
The rest of them still have really bad graphics drivers including Qualcomm because they're all too damn focused on other things to care about graphics technology ...
Every graphics tech enthusiast out there know that Adreno is an anagram for Radeon and by this point Qualcomm's graphics architecture are vastly different to AMD's. Qualcomm is still probably on scalar/vec4 while AMD is scalar/SIMD ...
| Pemalite said:
Allwinner and Mediatek tend to have the low-end locked up, they tend to opt for PowerVR and Mali, seems that PowerVR has been getting the preference over Mali these days though. Maybe ARM might reduce their emphasis on developing their own graphics I.P? |
Nah, they still want a complete package so that mobile device manufacturers don't take their business to Qualcomm ...
| Pemalite said:
I think it is to soon to jump the gun and assume AMD will be building drivers for Android. They may leave that up to Samsung. |
Well they basically have to since their drivers even take responsibility for some Intel parts using Vega ...
AMD are going to have to make drivers for Android if Samsung integrates their designs into the SoCs since AMD could provide better driver support than anyone other big player in the Android world would but hopefully there'll be enough funds from Samsung to provide the drivers ...
