Samsung Reportedly Planning to Sell Exynos SoCs to Third-party Manufacturers

Qualcomm and MediaTek may have some serious competition to contend with in the days to come up if latest reports are annihilation to go past. According to Digitimes, Samsung Electronics is looking to expand its semiconductor business past supplying its Exynos SoCs to 3rd-party smartphone manufacturers. Samsung will reportedly wait to the mid-range segment to start with, and towards that finish, is expected to increase the production of its mid-range Exynos chips.

Samsung is already the largest semiconductor manufacturer in the earth, having surpassed Intel terminal twelvemonth, but unlike Intel, a big chunk of its chip business comes from the DRAM and NAND Flash segments. That being the instance, industry insiders quoted by the Taiwanese publication seem to believe that, the increased focus on the logic scrap (IC) market volition likely "put Samsung in a ameliorate position to do good more from the official run of 5G mobile communication networks in 2020".

For the uninitiated, the Exynos-branded SoCs are designed, developed and manufactured in-house by Samsung. They power non simply many of the company's mid-range devices, just as well some variants of its flagship Milky way S-series and Note-series smartphones to be sold in India and large parts of Asia, Europe, Centre East and Africa. Information technology will be interesting to encounter how Samsung'due south attempt to put its Exynos chipsets into third-party smartphones work, considering so far, Meizu has been the only major company other than Samsung itself that has launched smartphones powered by these fries.

Merely and so you lot know, Samsung is the not the only smartphone vendor that designs its own mobile chipsets. Apple does it with its A-serial chips, the latest of which, the A11 Bionic, powers the highly-popular iPhone X. Huawei also has its own, in-business firm, Kirin SoCs that powers all its flagship P-series and Mate-series devices, while Xiaomi is also trying to get into the business, having already unveiled its get-go-ever SoC, the Surge S1, which was designed and developed by Pinecone Electronics, a company information technology owns.