Samsung’s large push for AI performance will proceed subsequent yr 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 can 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 kinds of AI accelerators and is in heavy use by Google merchandise – you’ll be able to even hire greater variations of the TPU from Google Cloud in case you are working with AI.
This may give telephones utilizing the Exynos 2500 – Galaxy S25 series for starters – entry to the Google machine studying APIs that may run fashions on the machine. The present iteration of Galaxy AI is generally cloud-powered, since although Samsung beefed up the AI {hardware} on the Exynos 2400, it’s nonetheless not sufficient.
Based mostly on Connor’s put up, the brand new flagship chipset can even embrace 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 newest report claims that the Galaxy S25 collection 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 shall be smoothed over by Android’s machine studying API’s?
Leaked information means that the Exynos 2500 shall be fabbed on Samsung’s second generation 3nm node (3nm GAP/SF3). It should function a Cortex-X5 at 3.2GHz, three A730 cores at 2.3-2.5GHz, two extra A730 at a decrease clock velocity and 4 A520 cores. It should use an Xclipse 950 GPU, however no particulars can be found on it.
For comparability, the Tensor G4 (which can probably be the supply of the TPU design) shall be fabbed on Samsung’s 4LPP+ node (after talks with TSMC fell by way of). Which means the Exynos 2500 ought to be quicker and extra environment friendly, even in AI duties (which was Google’s stronghold till now).
