Samsung Huawei's Self-developed GPU Forces: Qualcomm

Among the mobile phone products, the most technologically advanced component is the processor. Nowadays users use the most Qualcomm Snapdragon processors on Android phones, and Huawei Unicorn processors, MediaTek and Samsung Exynos are the second. In the process of processor wars, The CPU performance has reached a near-level, especially 10nm or 7nm process, and high-end processors can provide good computing power. But today will find that, in fact, mobile phone image processing capabilities are increasingly important, so people began to focus on On top of the GPU competition, this time, Adreno GPUs that Qualcomm has been proud of have gradually felt pressure.

At this stage, GPUs have begun to exert pressure. As far as Samsung is concerned, they have just reported that they will be developing GPUs themselves. For Samsung, its semiconductor industry has seen rising revenues in recent years. Samsung has already tasted the sweetness. In the previously introduced cat cricket architecture, the CPU has been able to keep up with the pace, but the GPU is still relatively backward, and all of them follow the design of the ARM. Now according to foreign media reports, Samsung has launched a GPU self-study program. The next product is a low-end processor that incorporates a self-developed GPU architecture to gradually improve the independence of its products and to create a complete ecological chain as far as possible to get rid of the control of other companies.

In addition to Samsung's effort to power the GPU, Huawei has long had an idea. As early as last year, people in the industry once said that Huawei's Kirin 980 processor has very good performance in image processing. From the current development point of view, since the development of GPU is a very critical factor.

For Huawei, the GPUturbo technology that has just been implemented at the present stage has surprised the business partners and told everyone to stay away from the game. On the other hand, Unicorn 980 uses cooperative research to improve its multi-faceted performance as soon as possible to make up for its shortcomings. For Huawei to attack high-end brands, it's better.

For Qualcomm, in fact, their advantage in the processor is gradually reduced, and Samsung Huawei's catch-up makes them slow, the gap between the two sides is narrowing, it can be said to be very gratifying performance after a good competition. Qualcomm's position In fact, they are very embarrassed. Beyond the pressure from decentralized Huawei, Apple's powerful self-developed GPU is leading the way and has become a guarantee for pre-Qualcomm patent fees. Therefore, around the second half of this year, AI technology and image capabilities are the mainstream and key. Naturally, it is impossible for Qualcomm's family to be the only ones. Whether it is going to follow the current trend, Qualcomm will inevitably be lawless. Therefore, domestic technology breakthroughs are very necessary.