Samsung’s large push for AI performance will proceed subsequent 12 months and it’ll contain the Exynos 2500, in accordance with X poster Connor/콘어/コナー. Similar to Samsung makes use of an AMD-designed GPU in its flagship chips, it should additionally use a Google-designed TPU.
The TPU or Tensor Processing Unit has been part of Pixel telephones for a number of years and is built-in into the Tensor chipsets which are co-developed with Samsung. It’s one among a number of forms of AI accelerators and is in heavy use by Google merchandise – you may even lease greater variations of the TPU from Google Cloud if you’re working with AI.
It will give telephones utilizing the Exynos 2500 – Galaxy S25 sequence for starters – entry to the Google machine studying APIs that may run fashions on the gadget. The present iteration of Galaxy AI is usually cloud-powered, since though Samsung beefed up the AI {hardware} on the Exynos 2400, it’s nonetheless not sufficient.
Primarily based on Connor’s put up, the brand new flagship chipset may even embody two Neural Processing Items – G-NPU and S-NPU. The “G” stands for “normal” and is a extra versatile model of a fixed-function NPU. These have been part of Exynos because the 2200.
The latest report claims that the Galaxy S25 sequence will use each Exynos 2500 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chips, not simply Exynos as a earlier rumor claimed. Qualcomm has been pushing AI acceleration too – the 8 Gen 3 can run fashions with as much as 10 billion parameters – however its AI Engine is completely different from the TPU. Perhaps the variations might be smoothed over by Android’s machine studying API’s?
Leaked data means that the Exynos 2500 might be fabbed on Samsung’s second technology 3nm node (3nm GAP/SF3). It can function a Cortex-X5 at 3.2GHz, three A730 cores at 2.3-2.5GHz, two extra A730 at a decrease clock pace and 4 A520 cores. It can use an Xclipse 950 GPU, however no particulars can be found on it.
For comparability, the Tensor G4 (which is able to probably be the supply of the TPU design) might be fabbed on Samsung’s 4LPP+ node (after talks with TSMC fell by means of). Which means the Exynos 2500 must be sooner and extra environment friendly, even in AI duties (which was Google’s stronghold till now).