Samsung’s next flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S10, will apparently feature a “breakthrough” GPU, developed in-house. According to EE Times, the new processor groups multiple instructions together so they can be executed in a single cycle, delivering “leading performance per watt”. In an article on the Jon Peddie Research site, company president Dr. Jon Peddie commented:
“The simulations have indicated an even better performance than predicted and the batch instruction processing holds the promise of significantly reducing the latency in the motion-to-photon path, bringing low-power VR with fast recovery and very high-resolution dynamic display capability”.
Peddie also thinks that we could get official word in as little as 12 months and questioned whether the unit will have a broader use beyond smartphone application.
“It’s our guess we could see something official no later than this time next year. What remains to be seen is how far Samsung will take it. If they have the breakthrough we think they do, will they keep it in-house for competitive advantage, license it to one of their partners or maybe even go bigger and make it multi-platform from mobile, to TV, game consoles and PCs?”
Apple began developing its own mobile GPU last year. Both Apple and Samsung have been using their own proprietary CPUs for several years.
