Samsung has made some pretty significant strides in recent years with its line of in-house Exynos chipsets, and the South Korean manufacturer is now looking to kick things up a notch. Samsung has inked a multi-year deal that will see the manufacturer license AMD's Radeon graphics IP for use in its mobile chipsets.
AMD announced that Samsung will leverage its RDNA graphics architecture for "ultra low power, high performance mobile graphics," and the partnership is particularly significant because it marks AMD's reentry into the mobile space. AMD sold off its Imageon business to Qualcomm back in 2009, which formed the basis for the Adreno lineup of GPUs.
AMD has been very successful in the console space, where it works with Sony and Microsoft to create custom GPUs for the PlayStation and Xbox — the PlayStation 5 set to feature RDNA graphics. In this instance, however, AMD will solely be customizing the Radeon IP for use in the mobile form factor, and the manufacture will be taken care of by Samsung LSI.
