Samsung is forming a chipset development team in its mobile division

According to published reports, Samsung is a team in its mobile division Chipset development has formed It is said that this team will produce exclusive chipsets for Galaxy phones.

Korean magazine The Elec It reports that Samsung has formed a chipset or application processor (AP) development team in its Mobile Experience (MX) division, which is responsible for running the company’s smartphone operations. Apparently, this new chipset development team will be led by Choi Won-joon, executive vice president of the tech giant; A person who in 2016 from the company Qualcomm He joined Samsung.

Samsung’s smartphone unit has long relied on the Samsung System LSI division to develop Exynos processors. In addition, the LSI unit has designed and manufactured Exynos chips for other customers including Meizu and Vivo over the past years.

Elec’s sources have explained that the most likely reason for forming a chipset development team in Samsung’s mobile division is so that the tech giant can develop its own mobile processors for Galaxy phones.

This is not the first time that there are reports about Samsung’s ambitious plans in this field. Last May, it was also said that Samsung is working on an ambitious chipset exclusive to the Galaxy brand, which will be launched in 2025, and for that reason, it will abandon the Exynos processors in 2023 and 2024.

Of course, Samsung has since signed a deal with Qualcomm, according to which, Snapdragon processors will be used in flagship Galaxy phones. The first phone to be introduced under this contract is the Galaxy S23 next year.

Currently, there are many questions about Samsung’s internal chipset development team, to find the right answers, we have to wait for more official information and news.