Samsung Reportedly Designing Its Own GPU

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Samsung Reportedly Designing Its Own GPU

Reports are coming out that Samsung for the past few years has been working on its own original graphics processor design...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTc4Nzc

[Filiprino]

Free drivers please!

[Awesomeness]

Free drivers please!

Yeah, right?

[user82]

Another mobile vendor with horrible code that can't implement OpenGl spec's.
Please no!

[zanny]

Seriously, fuck you Samsung you should have just licensed GCN from AMD.

[curaga]

Seriously, fuck you Samsung you should have just licensed GCN from AMD.

GCN in a mobile? When the smallest GCN AMD has made is 50W?

[zanny]

GCN in a mobile? When the smallest GCN AMD has made is 50W?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puma_%28microarchitecture%29

3 - 4.5w tablet processors, and that is with 128 compute cores - considering most smartphones are shipping with 16 - 32, you could downsize that even more.

[CTown]

Let's not forget that all Android hackers (even the highest ranking of the CyanogenMod team) have had so many problems just with Samsung's CPU alone.
As Micheal put it, we just have to hope Samsung's driver will also target mainline Linux (and Tizen) instead of just Android. I would think Samsung would test their new GPU with Tizen or low tier Android devices first.

[riklaunim]

Samsung is known of making good hardware, but it's also known of poor software (or at least no it par with their hardware quality). If they design their own GPU it would be good if they used different software development policy for drivers

[Awesomeness]

Seriously, fuck you Samsung you should have just licensed GCN from AMD.

You're missing the point that Samsung does not want to rely on 3rd parties.