Exynos 5450

Well Samsung licences SGX XT for something perhaps it's Exynos 54xx or another variant or class of SoCs.

Samsung's Exynos 5450 chip is currently expected to feature an ARM Mali T658 graphics block. I can't really remember what exactly Samsung licensed from Imagination Technologies though.
 
Samsung's Exynos 5450 chip is currently expected to feature an ARM Mali T658 graphics block. I can't really remember what exactly Samsung licensed from Imagination Technologies though.

Series5XT (the multi-core capable cores). Since 5250 contains a T604 it wouldn't make sense but to you use anything but a T658 for the 5450.
 
Nov 11

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG; "Imagination"), a leader in System-on-Chip Intellectual Property ("SoC IP"), has signed a license agreement with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. ("Samsung") for IP from Imagination’s PowerVR SGX MP multiprocessor graphics family.

Samsung will deploy Imagination’s technologies in multiple SoCs targeting mobile and consumer markets.

We could be looking at 2013 SoCs - so are we talking SGX554MP here?
 
Nov 11

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG; "Imagination"), a leader in System-on-Chip Intellectual Property ("SoC IP"), has signed a license agreement with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. ("Samsung") for IP from Imagination’s PowerVR SGX MP multiprocessor graphics family.

Samsung will deploy Imagination’s technologies in multiple SoCs targeting mobile and consumer markets.

We could be looking at 2013 SoCs - so are we talking SGX554MP here?

If we're talking 2013 SoCs then we're probably talking about Rogue aka PowerVR 6 series.
 
No we are talking about what Samsung have licensed. Afaik they are either an unnamed series 6 licensee or they have yet too. If Exynos 54xx is indeed Mali, then 2013 is the earliest we will see them go back to PowerVR.
 
Nov 11

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG; "Imagination"), a leader in System-on-Chip Intellectual Property ("SoC IP"), has signed a license agreement with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. ("Samsung") for IP from Imagination’s PowerVR SGX MP multiprocessor graphics family.

Samsung will deploy Imagination’s technologies in multiple SoCs targeting mobile and consumer markets.

We could be looking at 2013 SoCs - so are we talking SGX554MP here?

It states SGX MP clearly above, meaning that it should be a Series5XT member.

No we are talking about what Samsung have licensed. Afaik they are either an unnamed series 6 licensee or they have yet too. If Exynos 54xx is indeed Mali, then 2013 is the earliest we will see them go back to PowerVR.

Did ST Microelectronics "go back" to PowerVR in some weird twisted sense or are they using IP from two GPU IP providers in parallel for the foresseable future?
 
ST might have some Mali designs but their recent MWC news was PowerVR SGX XT focused. They have licensed Rogue whereas there is no evidence that Samsung have.
 
ST might have some Mali designs but their recent MWC news was PowerVR SGX XT focused. They have licensed Rogue whereas there is no evidence that Samsung have.

There's never ever any hard evidence until we see a formal relative announcement from either IMG or Samsung in that regard. However indications at least are there:

http://jonpeddie.com/press-releases...echnologies-supplies-more-gpu-ip-then-all-ot/

The company also said it has eight licensees for Series 6 cores including: ST-Ericsson, Texas Instruments, Renesas and MediaTek (plus JPR believes Apple, Intel, and Samsung).

For the moment we can categorize it as speculation, however JPR isn't the happy go merry random rumor mongering website with no real background either.

A wee bit closer to the topic (in a way): it's impressive how VIVANTE in such a small timeframe as a quite recent startup managed to gain as much ground as a GPU IP provider compared to ARM.
 
There's never ever any hard evidence until we see a formal relative announcement from either IMG or Samsung in that regard. However indications at least are there:

http://jonpeddie.com/press-releases...echnologies-supplies-more-gpu-ip-then-all-ot/

No one seems to be surprised about the different market shares, but I was quite surprised:

- ARM's own Mali seem's to do poorly
- Vivante seems to do great, especially compared to the coverage of them

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20120323-press-release-2.jpg
 
From that article:
"We did not include Navigational units because we could not find many that used a GPU".
That surprised me. I would have thought those sorts of devices would be ideal candidates for GPUs.
 
It's only recently that in-car standalone satellite navigation systems have gained a GPU. TomTom now have one, but it doesn't compare to what's in a modern smartphone today, performance wise.
 
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