Google developing its own SoCs for Pixels and Chromebooks

[HEXUS]

Firm has already made "significant progress," towards this end, says a new report.

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[philehidiot]

Samsung went down this path with not insignificant resources. They made a hash of it.

[3dcandy]

Samsung went down this path with not insignificant resources. They made a hash of it.

I think that's a tad harsh. Sold milions but people wanted Snapdragon. When you have 2 versions of a phone with differing hardware and 1 is the de facto standard they would probably have been better dropping snapdragon and using all Exynos. If google do that they may do better

[edmundhonda]

Samsung's Exynos was always worse than the competing SD part though. Usually slower as well as less efficient. That's why people wanted the international hardware with SD instead.

[3dcandy]

Samsung's Exynos was always worse than the competing SD part though. Usually slower as well as less efficient. That's why people wanted the international hardware with SD instead.

Not always worse, usually less efficient. Like I said perhaps if they just used Exynos worldwide they would have been ok

[3dcandy]

Oh and Qualcomm are probably the worst tech company with practices that make Apple and nVidia look like saints...

[philehidiot]

Samsung's Exynos was always worse than the competing SD part though. Usually slower as well as less efficient. That's why people wanted the international hardware with SD instead.

Not always worse, usually less efficient. Like I said perhaps if they just used Exynos worldwide they would have been ok

The S9 was comprehensively worse with the Exynos. The ISP meant camera processing was poorer, the screen output was even worse despite the panel being the same. Even the audio out was comprehensively way worse. The efficiency was worse to the point where even journalists wrote a better scheduler for them and the peak performance could not match the snapdragon variant.

The S10 wasn't so bad and represents a decent buy at the moment.

The Exynos S20 has AWFUL battery life compared to the Snapdragon variant. To the point where the snapdragon can provide all day battery life and the Exynos is simply not fit for purpose as a mobile phone being used for productivity and needing to be available for use all day without access to a charger. It can't last anywhere near all day unless you turn off most of the features (at which point just buy a cheaper phone). The performance per watt is beyond awful (double the power required for the same workload compared to SD) and some aspects are a retrograde step. They are seeing the same percentage increase in performance and power consumption on a new process node. That's impressive work. Probably a result of the department knowing they were all about to get fired.

If they had use Exynos worldwide, the competition would have been laughing as they got 14 hours of battery life whilst the Samsung got 7 in the same test.

I understand why they have their own silly-cone especially given the QC practices. I also have a personal and passionate hatred for ARM. But that's not the issue. Hopefully Samsung's next generation of phones will not have the same issues given they are stopping custom designs.

[DanceswithUnix]

I also have a personal and passionate hatred for ARM.

That seems quite unusual. They don't get everything right, but seem fairly switched on in most regards to the point I was at one time considering working for them (but even with relocation help, I didn't want to pull the kids out of school to move to Cambridge).

Having said that, I believe in the long run RISC-V will trash ARM's business.

[philehidiot]

I also have a personal and passionate hatred for ARM.

That seems quite unusual. They don't get everything right, but seem fairly switched on in most regards to the point I was at one time considering working for them (but even with relocation help, I didn't want to pull the kids out of school to move to Cambridge).

Having said that, I believe in the long run RISC-V will trash ARM's business.

It is unusual. I wouldn't recommend working for them unless you're 100% normal or able to convince people that you are.

[lodore]

I was expecting Google to of done this already. I am hoping google will be able to provide longer updates if using custom chips. the other advantage is google isn't late to the game in October using almost last years chip.

I am currently using Pixel 2 xl and as long as i get updates i see no reason to upgrade.