We recently learned that AMD has licensed its Radeon RDNA technology to Samsung. We now know that this graphics technology will end up on smartphones in about two years.
In Samsung's latest quarterly earnings call, a representative said that Samsung would use AMD's IP technology in about two years. While AMD has confirmed that it has allocated € 100 million in revenue to its partnership with Samsung, Tom's Hardware reports.
An unidentified Samsung representative said of RDNA technology: "We expect GPU technology to be adopted in products to be released in the next two years," Seeking Alpha says in its translation of the latest technology. Call for results.
This has some implications for the SoCs that Samsung is developing for its mobile devices. These have appeared on many smartphones and tablets under the Exynos brand. However, some regions do not see these systems as often because Samsung's flagship smartphones in some regions use Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipsets, as in the United States.
Using AMD's RDNA Radeon could help Samsung continue to improve the graphics performance of its internal chipsets without investing as much in research and design.
About AMD architecture
AMD's RDNA Radeon graphics architecture powers its latest 7nm Navi graphics processors, such as the Radeon RX 5700 XT, and has helped bridge the performance gap between graphics cards. The range of AMD and that of Nvidia, although Nvidia still holds the crown of the floor performance. The architecture should also appear shortly in the next generation of video game consoles.
The architecture will allow Samsung to create devices that work like AMD's graphics processors, but will not work in the same space. Instead, Samsung will focus on mobile devices like smartphones. The desktop and laptop graphics processing market must remain with AMD to avoid any competition between the two companies using RDNA.
With the timeline now set at around two years, it will be interesting to see how the RDNA stacks up against all devices, from smartphones to high-powered gaming computers.