Samsung once again purchased the patent license of the new generation PowerVR 5 series GPU architecture from Imagination Technologies, but when it returned to Samsung's new generation Exynos application processor, the graphics architecture had already moved away from PowerVR and used ARM's Mali instead, and Samsung had also purchased the licenses of Mali's next generation Mali-T604 and Mali-T658 just announced. Is it necessary for Samsung to change its mind again?
Although I dare not say that it is absolutely impossible, don't forget that Samsung Semiconductor is not just a self-produced Exynos application processor. According to the recent industrial trends, Apple A6 still chooses Samsung as its production partner, and Apple's A-series application processors have always adopted PowerVR GPU architecture, so the reason for purchasing a new generation of PowerVR architecture authorization should not be so complicated. By the way, the GPU of PSVita's processor is also a multi-core architecture of PowerVR.
News source: Anandtech
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