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“Samsung has decided to transition part of our US-based R&D teams in Austin and San Jose,” says Samsung.
It is thought that around 290 jobs will be lost.
It is believed that Samsung has not found external customers for Exynos.
It is thought that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors were too superior to custom core Exynos processors to make the costs of developing custom cores worthwhile.
It is assumed that Samsung will now drop its proprietary Mongoose cores for mobile applications and revert to using standard, or semi-custom, Arm Cortex cores.
