Quote from: JohnMac on April 05, 2020, 11:01:25

Quote from: jeremy on April 05, 2020, 01:13:51
None of the words from former employees of the architecture team at Austin, TX were ever positive (founded with former AMD Bobcat CPU engineers). All quit within months, and it has been running on fumes for years.

The main team (I[m assuming they are in Korea) should have focused on just licensing ARM cores and getting them to work on Samsung's logic nodes (they are starting to do that nowadays).

They still have that 11nm (down to 65nm) 300mm fab in Austin, though, so I assume the architecture team in Austin is really just a side operation to the Samsung, and it shows.

Samsung stopped customer CPU development late last year. Future Exynos chips will use Arm designs.

I'm pretty sure the author of this article already knows this too but just wants the clicks.

Samsung also needs to overhaul the memory subsystem, their approach seems unconventional, in a bad way since it introduces erratic access latency. I have no idea exactly why they failed but they have, and simply going A78 next year does not guarantee a comeback.

Quote from: jeremy on April 05, 2020, 01:13:51
None of the words from former employees of the architecture team at Austin, TX were ever positive (founded with former AMD Bobcat CPU engineers). All quit within months, and it has been running on fumes for years.

The main team (I[m assuming they are in Korea) should have focused on just licensing ARM cores and getting them to work on Samsung's logic nodes (they are starting to do that nowadays).

They still have that 11nm (down to 65nm) 300mm fab in Austin, though, so I assume the architecture team in Austin is really just a side operation to the Samsung, and it shows.

Samsung stopped customer CPU development late last year. Future Exynos chips will use Arm designs.

I'm pretty sure the author of this article already knows this too but just wants the clicks.

None of the words from former employees of the architecture team at Austin, TX were ever positive (founded with former AMD Bobcat CPU engineers). All quit within months, and it has been running on fumes for years.

The main team (I[m assuming they are in Korea) should have focused on just licensing ARM cores and getting them to work on Samsung's logic nodes (they are starting to do that nowadays).

They still have that 11nm (down to 65nm) 300mm fab in Austin, though, so I assume the architecture team in Austin is really just a side operation to the Samsung, and it shows.