AMD, Samsung to bring PC gaming tech to mobile chips

NEW DELHI: Chipmaker AMD has partnered with Samsung to bring its RDNA2 graphics know-how to the latter’s Exynos mobile chips. RDNA 2 has up to now been seen on AMD’s PC chips, that are way more highly effective than mobile chips, like those that Samsung, Qualcomm, and so forth. make. The new chips had been introduced throughout the Computex 2021 keynote on Monday.

Samsung and AMD had first introduced the deal again in 2019, saying it will be a “multi-year strategic partnership”. “As we put together for disruptive adjustments in know-how and uncover new alternatives, our partnership with AMD will permit us to bring ground-breaking graphics merchandise and options to marketplace for tomorrow’s mobile functions,” mentioned Inyup Kang, president of Samsung Electronics’ S.LSI Business, on the time.

While not a lot is thought about how the brand new chips will work, Samsung has mentioned it is going to license AMD’s customized graphics primarily based mental property (IP) for its mobile gadgets, together with smartphones and different merchandise. The firm is meant to pay AMD licensing charges, nevertheless it’s unclear how a lot the PC chipmaker’s involvement within the creation of the brand new chips might be. They are additionally supposed to bring Ray Tracing know-how to mobile chips, which is a rendering method that improves lighting in video games. Samsung and AMD would be the first to bring this know-how down to smartphones and different mobile merchandise.

AMD additionally mentioned it’s partnering with electrical automotive maker, Tesla, to bring the RDNA 2 know-how to vehicles as properly. The firm confirmed that its Ryzen GPUs will energy the infotainment system on upcoming Tesla automobiles, that are supposed to help full-fledged AAA video games like Cyberpunk.

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