Enlarge / The Exynos 2200. There’s an AMD GPU in there. (credit: Samsung)
The bizarre story of the Exynos 2200 continues. Samsung LSI’s flagship smartphone chip was supposed to be announced a week ago at a widely publicized event, but the day came and went with no announcement . Samsung made the unprecedented move of no-showing its own launch event, fueling rumors of troubled chip development and behind-the-scenes dysfunction at Samsung.
The day after the chip was supposed to launch, Special said, “We are planning to unveil the new application processor at the time of launching a new Samsung smartphone, ” which most watchers assumed was the Galaxy S22 launch in February. It turns out that wasn’t the right timing for the unveiling, either, and the particular chip was surprise-announced last night.
Now, the Exynos 2200 is finally official . The headline feature is a new “Samsung Xclipse 920 GPU” that was co-developed by AMD. Samsung says typically the GPU uses AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture, the same as AMD’s Radeon desktop GPUs, and will bring “hardware-accelerated ray tracing inch to mobile devices.
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