Samsung also said to be working on mobile AI chips for smarter processing

There are many ongoing races in AI right now but one of the most important relates to smartphone chips themselves. Huawei has already planted a flag firmly in the earth in this regard, having recently announced the AI related features that will make their way to its Kirin 970 processor. Meanwhile, Apple’s iPhone 8 series smartphones will make use of its A11 chips’ “neural engine” for more advanced AI processing.
Now, news from South Korea has suggested that Samsung is targeting the development of dedicated smartphone CPU cores specifically for handling AI related tasks. The speculation arrives via The Korean Herald, which claims that Samsung has already begun research and development on the AI chips and is seeking to commercialize them “in the next few years.”
What would set Samsung’s AI chips apart from its typical Exynos SoCs is that they would rely less on cloud-based processing. Samsung’s previous AI chipsets had to interact with cloud servers to retrieve information. With this stored locally on devices, future chips could be more efficient.