french toast
Veteran
Yes they confirmed it as a Mali, and they also have said 4x better..which leads me to believe T-604
They confirmed its a Mali at MWC (but not which type)
http://blogs.arm.com/multimedia/676-samsung-confirms-mali-is-in-the-exynos-5250-processor/
Good news then.
That slide is about the Exynos 5250 and not about the 5450 that's mainly being discussed in this thread. That said, that slide does confirm that the Exynos 5250 will use a Mali T-604 MP4 GPU.http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/19/alleged-exynos-5-specs-leaked-in-slide-show-spyshot/
Using a pair of A15 cores running at 2GHz, backed up by a quad-core Mali T-604 MP4 GPU. All of that will supposedly be built with Samsung's new 32nm High-K Metal Gate process.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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).
Is Chrome ever going to become relevant?
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/
That surprised me. I would have thought those sorts of devices would be ideal candidates for GPUs."We did not include Navigational units because we could not find many that used a GPU".