Samsung Semiconductor is too aggressive: the Orion 2500 processor is more powerful than the Snapdragon 8 Gen4
Samsung's Orion processor has been a joke in the past few years, and one of the important reasons is that Samsung's process technology has a great disadvantage compared with TSMC, resulting in a large performance gap between Samsung's Orion processor and Qualcomm and other competitors, resulting in no manufacturer willing to use Samsung's Orion processor, not even Samsung itself. After many Waterloos, Samsung seems to have learned the hard way, hoping to make a comeback on the Orion 2500 processor, it is reported that the Orion 2500 processor has been on par with the Snapdragon 8 Gen4 in terms of initial feedback performance, and even has a lead, which may be good news for Samsung.
At present, a person familiar with the matter said that the Samsung Orion 2500 processor seems to have been beaten, and in the preliminary evaluation and test, its original performance and energy efficiency ratio are better than that of Snapdragon 8 Gen4, and the performance of this year's Orion 2400 processor is already on par with Snapdragon 8 Gen3. In addition, Samsung will also follow Qualcomm's pace, dividing the Orion processor into two parts: PC and mobile phone, of which the mobile phone part uses an 8-core processor, while the PC part is a 10-core processor, which brings more powerful performance, which looks like it should be comparable to the Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite X processor.
In addition, AI is very popular, and Samsung seems to feel that its own AI strength is still relatively lacking, so it plans to use Google's NPU to obtain better AI performance to compete with Qualcomm and other companies, it is not yet clear how Google's NPU can bring strong AI computing power to the Samsung Orion 2500 processor to meet the needs of Microsoft's next-generation system for AI. In addition, in terms of process, Samsung's Orion 2500 processor will also use the latest 3nm process, which will greatly increase the transistor density.
Samsung hopes to be able to make a beautiful comeback with the help of the Orion processor in the AI era, so that more customers can choose Samsung's processor, but the Samsung Orion processor may be better than the Snapdragon processor on paper, but the actual experience is very different, and the Bank of China is likely to use the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, so if you want to taste the Orion processor, it is estimated that you still have to buy the Korean version or the European version of the Samsung Galaxy mobile phone.