The alleged launch period was leaked by everybody’s favourite leakster, Ice universe (@UniverseIce), who says that the July launch window comes after both Samsung and AMD missed their June release window. Sadly, Ice universe doesn’t follow up the tweet with additional details but at this point, it’s fair to say that we have an idea of what we can expect. Rumours of both AMD and Samsung’s collaboration on a new ARM-based, Exynos mobile chipset first cropped up back in 2019, when the two tech giants announced their “multi-year strategic partnership” and how AMD would license out its first-generation RDNA graphics architecture.
— Ice universe (@UniverseIce) June 20, 2021 One core feature that Samsung wants from the RDNA2 architecture is real-time ray-tracing; a graphics feature that, while having existed since the 1970s, was brought on to the scene by NVIDIA and its Turing GPU architecture in 2018. In 2020, AMD jumped on the bandwagon with the launch of its Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards and RDNA2 architecture. That said, neither AMD nor Samsung have a proof-of-concept that showcases the upcoming RDNA2-powered Exynos chipset, and as we’ve previously reported, a tech demo showing off real-time ray-tracing on a mobile chipset does actually exist. That honour belongs to NetEase and Huawei, the latter having volunteered its own Kirin 990 SoC for the tech demo. (Source: Videocardz, Ice universe via Twitter)
