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Discussion Samsung Exynos SoC thread

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Tachyonism said:
You kinda underestimated Windows there.

Apple has the money to throw around to app developers, and a big userbase that is basically locked in their ecosystem. I'd argue Samsung has neither and they would need some very big breakthrough to push consumers toward their own Linux distro and hardware.
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If those earlier rumors are true they do work with valve, Steam os is popular nowadays and ready for average people, while it won't attract business and enterprise atleast they can get gamers and htpc users.
 
hemedans said:
If those earlier rumors are true they do work with valve, Steam os is popular nowadays and ready for average people, while it won't attract business and enterprise atleast they can get gamers and htpc users.
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Those rumors are probably attributed to SteamOS usage in VR/AR headsets instead of laptops.

Other than that, I agree with you that it can be quite an attractive OS option for gaming laptop.
 
Doug S said:
I still think Samsung needs to devote a lot more resources to their modem - that's a lot more important to their mobile unit's profitability than what GPU they use and how good it is. Even if they got their foundry roughly on par with TSMC, got a GPU roughly on par with AMD, and got ARM cores roughly on par with Qualcomm's they would STILL be using Qualcomm SoCs in much of the world until they fix their stupid modem!
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Quoting my own post here (ugh) because I read something recently that makes Samsung's actions make a bit more sense. Samsung apparently uses the mix of Exynos and Qualcomm SoCs in the Galaxy as leverage to get Qualcomm to make some SoCs in their fabs. I guess they make more money off Qualcomm making some of their SoCs in Samsung's fabs than it costs them to pay $280/ea for millions of Qualcomm SoCs.

Maybe the AI bubble causing shortages at TSMC will provide Samsung with enough foundry volume that they won't need to make deals with the devil like that in the future?
 
Tachyonism said:
Those rumors are probably attributed to SteamOS usage in VR/AR headsets instead of laptops.

Other than that, I agree with you that it can be quite an attractive OS option for gaming laptop.
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Funny story Steam could be used as a Gaming OS, won't be as popular for the average Joe but it might have a good chunk of Desktop and Laptop users.
 
DZero said:
Well... seeing the news about the benchmarks... with some optimization, that Exynos is wild
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Definitely quite an improvement. Seems like it averages around 3200 in ST, but TBD on that. But using that at 3.8GHz, that’s 842pts/GHz (max 882pts/GHz). Pretty dang solid.

For reference with iOS 26.3 the iPhone 17 Pros average around 3850 @ 4.26GHz in ST. So about 904pts/GHz in ST (max up near 940 pts/GHz).
And around 10k in MT.

So only about 7pct higher pts/clock. Samsung for sure did well. Will be interesting to see the power draw.
 
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