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Samsung Is Developing Dedicated XR Chip, Enhancing Autonomy and Competitiveness

By:Maxwell

TapTechNews August 14th news, according to the local time report on the 8th of this month by the South Korean media Seoul Economic Daily (Sedaily), Samsung Electronics is internally developing a dedicated chip for XR devices. The project development director is Neeraj Parik, a chip design expert recruited by Samsung from Intel last year.

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Neeraj Parik is currently the chief SoC and system architect of Samsung's US research institute, and his previous job was the chief SoC architect in the data center accelerator field of Intel. Neeraj Parik also has work experience in Tesla, Apple, Broadcom, Xilinx, Philips, and Rambus.

It is worth noting that the South Korean media stated in the report that the chip development project is independently supervised by the MX (TapTechNews note: Mobile Experience) department of Samsung Electronics responsible for the XR device business, and the DS (Device Solution) department that usually leads the internal chip design of Samsung the System LSI business department is not involved.

In the XR field, Samsung Electronics is about to launch a new-generation device platform developed in cooperation with Qualcomm and Google. This XR head-mounted display with the code name Moohan will be equipped with a Qualcomm chipset and run a special edition of the Android system. It is expected to launch the developer version in October 2024, and the consumer version will be launched in March 2025.

And the currently developed XR dedicated chip inside Samsung Electronics is expected to be used for the next-generation product after Moohan. This chip will enhance Samsung's autonomy in the XR head-mounted display field and improve its competitiveness against rivals such as Apple and Meta.

Although not involved in the XR chip project supervised by the MX department, the System LSI business department of Samsung Electronics is also formulating a development plan for the MachEdge AI chip to cope with the development of new mobile devices such as XR.

Samsung XR chip Neeraj Parik MachEdge

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