Forget MacBook Air M1: Samsung reportedly launching Exynos laptop with AMD graphics

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Forget MacBook Air M1: Samsung reportedly launching Exynos laptop with AMD graphics

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Samsung is reportedly working on a new Windows 10 laptop that would characteristic both its own Exynos organisation-on-a-chip and integrated Radeon graphics from AMD. According to ZDNet Korea, the ARM-based laptop could launch later this year.

The MacBook Pro with M1 and MacBook Air with M1 both show that ARM laptops are ready for prime time, but we've yet to see a Windows equivalent with competitive functioning. Samsung may be looking to change that by copying Apple's strategy of building a processor in-house — with a little assist from AMD on the graphics side.

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Samsung and AMD's partnership really began in 2019, with the apparent intention of bringing AMD's Radeon graphics tech to Samsung's smartphones. ZDNet Korea's report is unconfirmed for now, but it's easy to encounter how a laptop SoC with integrated Radeon graphics could come from that partnership. Exynos chips have long been the backbone of Samsung's phones and tablets, including the most recent Samsung Galaxy S21 (though not in the U.Due south.).

The report mentioned a brand new SoC for the laptop, named the Exynos 2200. No other specs were included though Samsung will apparently too build the laptop'southward display, memory, battery and storage itself. That means information technology could feature the Samsung OLED laptop screens it launched in January.

It's worth remembering that such a laptop wouldn't be Samsung'southward first foray into ARM-based Windows 10 notebooks: it's already dabbled with last yr'south Samsung Milky way Book S. Still, that used a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx instead of Samsung's own processor tech. A more bespoke design could help close the performance gap between current Windows 10 ARM laptops and the enormously powerful M1 MacBooks.

If this laptop is as far into development every bit the report suggests, expect Samsung to announce it in the second one-half of 2021. Interestingly, ZDNet Korea also claimed the launch would come after the release of the Samsung Milky way Notation 21.

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James is currently Hardware Editor at Rock Paper Shotgun, but before that was Audio Editor at Tom's Guide, where he covered headphones, speakers, soundbars and annihilation else that intentionally makes noise. A PC enthusiast, he also wrote computing and gaming news for TG, usually relating to how hard it is to notice graphics card stock.

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