[zerohp]

100% of the CPU design team at Samsung in Austin was laid off in 2019. That's why none of the authors in this 2020 paper have a Samsung email address.

[sangnoir]

That doesn't answer the question unless we know what fraction of the overall CPU design org the Austin team was. Was CPU design only done on Austin, or was the team in Austin one of many?

[deaddodo]

SARC was the primary ARM mobile CPU research arm at Samsung. Them being gone would kneecap development, no matter how many other teams there were.

Which is why Samsung has switched to mostly commodity ARM cores.

[sangnoir]

That clarifies things, and suggests Samsung is reconsidering its long-term ARM strategy: Exynos processors consistently underperform relative to the Snapdragon versiosn of the same Samsung device, despite what I assume were decades of investment.