While there hasn’t yet been a formal teardown of
Samsung’s (
005930) upcoming
Galaxy S IV smartphone yet, we can now confirm what technology it will use for its graphics processor.
AppleInsider points us to a
blog post from graphics chip vendor Imagination that claims the
Galaxy S IV will feature its own PowerVR SGX544 GPU that the company says “can be implemented as a high-performance 4-pipeline single core or in various multiprocessor (MP) configurations of between 2 and 16 cores (8 to 64 pipelines).” As
AppleInsider notes, Samsung’s use of Imagination’s GPU marks a transition away from ARM-based graphics and toward “the same graphics tech featured in
Apple’s (
AAPL) iPhones and iPads.” Or put another way, Imagination’s future seems to be pretty bright now that it counts both Apple and Samsung as its clients.
