A11 Bionic Chip
As we all know, currently the top three mobile phone manufacturers in the world all have their own self-developed processors. They are Apple's A series chips, Samsung's Exynos series processors, and Huawei's Kirin processor. Most other mobile phone manufacturers use Qualcomm's. Dragon processor and MediaTek processor, that is to say, the big players in mobile phone CPU are these five. Of course, it is necessary to make one sentence. All these mobile processors are actually based on the ARM architecture. The self-research mentioned here is actually based on the ARM architecture. Self-study.
But when it comes to GPUs, there are far fewer players on the market. Only Qualcomm's Adreno, ARM's Mali, and Apple's GPUs mean that the big players in mobile GPUs are these three.
However, in fact, neither Samsung nor Huawei are "premeditated" self-developed processors.
As early as the beginning of last year, Imagination Technologies announced that Apple will abandon its use of all its technologies within the next two years, including patents and IP intellectual property, etc. This paragraph undoubtedly stated that Apple will adopt the iPhone itself. Research GPUs to replace the GPUs previously developed with Imagination.
The result did not wait until the two-year period, Apple put an Apple-designed GPU on the A11 bionic chip, and directly flung other vendors generation in performance.
Samsung reported that it would be a lot of late to report on its own GPU, but Samsung’s flagship may soon be able to use it. According to Wccftech’s report, Samsung’s self-developed GPU has progressed smoothly, or will be the first in the Samsung S10. On board.
At the same time, Samsung's self-developed GPUs also mean a major blow to Qualcomm and ARM. The first is Qualcomm. Samsung is now fully able to rely on Qualcomm's CPU and baseband dependencies. Once successful, the success of GPUs means that Samsung may not need them. Relying on Qualcomm, Qualcomm had to rely on Samsung's chips for production.
For ARM, the Samsung Exynos processor was previously using the Mali chip (the same as Huawei Unicorn and MediaTek), and the GPU's attack on it is very straightforward. And Huawei's own GPU rumors are similar, once Samsung and Huawei Self-study GPU success, the most injured is ARM.
Of course, for the average consumer, the benefits of self-developed GPUs are significant. Because mobile phone manufacturers have mastered self-developed GPUs, the stronger the company's control and understanding of GPUs, especially Apple, Samsung and Huawei have already done so. Mastering the self-developed CPU vendors, the overall performance of the mobile phone is very helpful.