Apple and Qualcomm are progressing nicely with their custom SoC designs, while Samsung and MediaTek continue to play catch-up, thanks to relying on ARM’s CPU cores for years. Unfortunately, for the Korean giant, that was a necessary transition, as the company was forced to drop its adoption of Mongoose cores after witnessing better results from utilizing Cortex designs. However, a major change might be in order, because a new report states that Samsung has formed a ‘Custom SoC Development Team’ aimed to boost competition against
Lisuan Tech GPU runs 3DMark test alongside ARM-based CPU on Windows on ARM
This is some interesting news from China, because it points to a new path for PC gaming on Windows on ARM. Neither AMD nor NVIDIA offers a Windows on ARM SoC for consumers, so this space is still dominated by Qualcomm platforms. The reason we have not yet seen any Windows on ARM systems running Radeon, Arc, or GeForce GPUs is simple: none of the major discrete GPU vendors has released Windows on ARM drivers for their
