Samsung and AMD are developing a ray tracing mobile Exynos SoC

The implications of this announcement could be big. What you need to know AMD brought big news with it to Computex 2021. It announced it's working with Samsung on an AMD RDNA 2 architecture-based Exynos chip for mobile devices. This chip would be capable of variable rate shading and ray tracing. All the hype over ray tracing in the best PC and Xbox games is about to spread to mobile in a big way, thanks to AMD's team-up with Samsung. AMD announced today at Computex 2021 that it will be developing a next-gen Exynos SoC (system-on-a-chip) that'll give Samsung's flagship mobile devices the power necessary for ray tracing and variable rate shading. You can see the full slate of Computex 2021 announcements at AMD's site, though the Samsung partnership note is brief and simply says, "AMD is partnering with Samsung on its next generation Exynos SoC, which will feature custom AMD RDNA 2 architecture-based graphics IP that brings raytracing and variable rate shading capabilities to flag...