Samsung has confirmed that AMD's RDNA graphics technology will be included in its next-generation Exynos smartphone chips; as Anandtech points out, AMD and Samsung had originally talked about this move in 2019, but with this announcement, talk of collaboration has been etched into silicon It became a reality.

The news essentially confirms that Samsung and AMD have succeeded in making RDNA work within the ultramobile constraints of smartphones. Samsung has not announced anything specific, only indicating that RDNA graphics will be included in the successor to the Exynos 2100.

There are no details on what RDNA Samsung plans to use, specifications such as number of cores, or expected performance. So far, AMD has released two generations of RDNA graphics for PCs, with the latest RDNA 2 architecture being released late last year on both PCs and consoles to widespread acclaim.

Yes, we are talking about the AMD Radeon RX 6000 series, Xbox Series X and Sony PS5 consoles. All of these feature RDNA 2 graphics.

This is an important move in many ways, but PC gamers may wonder why they should really care. First, RDNA is increasingly becoming a target for cross-platform game development. [Already RDNA is the foundation for major console gaming platforms from Microsoft and Sony. In the future, it will be even easier to develop game engines optimized for all PCs, consoles, and mobile devices. And it is not hard to imagine how this will benefit gamers who have AMD and AMD graphics cards in their PCs. Better optimization usually means better performance. Bringing RDNA to cell phones would buck the broader trend of mobile and ultramobile architectures eroding traditional high-performance applications

. [Many industry observers expect the ARM CPU architecture to eventually assimilate with performance computing applications; Apple's remarkable M1 chip appears to offer better IPC than Intel's and AMD's current x86 processors

In any case, this is good news, at least for AMD. They are really on a roll.