Samsung to follow Apple and make an AI chip for mobile
Samsung is joining the likes of Apple and Huawei by developing an AI-centric CPU core for its upcoming smartphone processors. Today’s AI tasks such as voice recognition and big data processing are usually offloaded to the cloud, to be retrieved by the user when needed. Samsung’s new Exynos chip, however, will have AI processing built in and will reduce cloud-based processing dependency. The chip is set to be brought to market in the next couple of years. Samsung's Bixby smart assistant is expected to be a beneficiary of the new technology.

Samsung is joining Apple and Huawei in developing AI-centric CPU cores for its upcoming processors. The new Exynos chips will supposedly be able to process data from AI directly on the smartphone without offloading it to the cloud.

Set to be commercialised in the next couple of years, the new AI co-processor will reduce cloud-base processing dependency by instead processing the data in the smartphone itself. Today’s AI tasks (voice recognition, big data processing) are offloaded to the cloud, and then retrieved when needed by the users.

This will be very useful as Samsung’s Bixby is still in the early days of developing into a proper smart assistant.

As one of the major semiconductor manufacturer, Samsung is well equipped to start developing the co-processor. This will contribute to a 3% global revenue growth that semiconductor manufacturers are expected to see from 2018 until 2022 according to market intelligence firm TrendForce.

With AI Processing becoming a fast growing trend among OEMs, having a leg’s up in the game will benefit Samsung to differentiate it from the other manufacturers in the market.

(Source: Korea Herald via Android Authority )

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