[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.