According to a new leak from its South Korean home, Samsung has assembled an internal team to work on developing its own custom and bespoke CPU cores. These will initially be ARM-based and will feature in a Galaxy-branded chipset in 2025.
The most intriguing part of the report implies that starting in 2027, Samsung will develop its own CPU cores that Mhux use ARM designs. These will presumably appear in products made by Samsung Electronics, such as high-end smartphones.
The rationale here is of course to control as much product as possible, “vertical integration” and all. The weirdness comes from the fact that Samsung has tried this before, with a dedicated team in Austin, Texas.
It was called Project Mongoose, since a mongoose is a snake-eating mammal and a krait is a kind of viper, apparently, and Qualcomm’s cores are branded Krait — quite a bit of trivia for you right there. And while the Mongoose cores performed well, they had issues with power efficiency and heat generation, and so the whole project was shut down in 2019.
You know what the saying goes: if you fail first… Samsung seems intent on trying again, despite its recent all-in partnership with Qualcomm for the Galaxy S23 series. It seems that the company still believes that using its own CPU cores will bring big improvements to the optimization of its smartphones, whatever that means.
Going ARM-less (ARM-free?) would still be a huge step, so we’re more inclined to assume the report might have got this fact wrong. Samsung can still use heavily customized ARM designs, just like Qualcomm does, it doesn’t need to fully develop the CPU cores itself to be able to compete with Qualcomm and MediaTek.
Either way, it seems that the Galaxy S family exclusively using Qualcomm SoCs is one of those “enjoy it while it lasts” situations that shouldn’t be taken for granted until the end of time.
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