Samsung and AMD partnering up to develop Exynos mobile chip with ray tracing

Washington: Semiconductor and processor manufacturer company AMD is partnering up with Samsung to provide RDNA 2 graphics technology for an Exynos mobile system-on-chip, potentially giving a boost to GPU performance in flagship Samsung phones.

According to The Verge, this announcement was made today at Computex Taipei. There aren’t many details on the chip or which products it’ll be used in, but AMD has described the chip as a “next-generation Exynos SoC,” and has said that Samsung will provide further information later in 2021.

The GPU will use AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture, enabling features like ray tracing and variable rate shading. AMD says it’ll make its way to “flagship mobile devices.”