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Samsung's "8nm" Exynos 9820 SoC Adds "Neural Processing Unit"

Accepted submission by takyon at 2018-11-14 15:29:45
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Samsung's next flagship processor has an NPU for on-device AI [theverge.com]

Samsung Electronics is the latest mobile system-on-chip vendor to start using dedicated hardware for on-device machine learning. The Exynos 9 Series 9820 [samsung.com], which will undoubtedly be used in the international versions of the Galaxy S10, has a neural processing engine (NPU) that is claimed to deliver up to seven times faster AI performance than the S9's 9810. NPUs can be used to speed up tasks like image processing and AR.

[...] Elsewhere, Samsung is claiming the Exynos 9820's fourth-generation custom CPU cores will provide a 20-percent boost to conventional single-core performance and 15-percent in multi-core or a 40-percent improvement in power efficiency. The GPU uses ARM's new Mali G76 cores, first seen in the Kirin 980, for what is claimed to be 40 percent greater performance or 35 percent better power efficiency.

Also at Android Central [androidcentral.com] and Wccftech [wccftech.com].


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