Samsung to use AMD custom graphics IP in smartphones and other products

Samsung today announced a multi-year strategic partnership with AMD. As part of this partnership, Samsung will get access to custom graphics IP based on the AMD’s highly-scalable RDNA graphics architecture. Samsung will use this IP in smartphones and other products. As a result, Samsung will pay license fees and royalties to AMD.

“As we prepare for disruptive changes in technology and discover new opportunities, our partnership with AMD will allow us to bring groundbreaking graphics products and solutions to market for tomorrow’s mobile applications,” said Inyup Kang, president of Samsung Electronics’ S.LSI Business. “We look forward to working with AMD to accelerate innovations in mobile graphics technologies that will help take future mobile computing to the next level.”

“Adoption of our Radeon graphics technologies across the PC, game console, cloud and HPC markets has grown significantly and we are thrilled to now partner with industry leader Samsung to accelerate graphics innovation in the mobile market,” said Dr. Lisa Su, AMD president and CEO. “This strategic partnership will extend the reach of our high-performance Radeon graphics into the mobile market, significantly expanding the Radeon user base and development ecosystem.”

Source: AMD/Samsung