In 2010, Samsung launched the Hummingbird S5PC110 in its Samsung Galaxy S smartphone, which featured a licensed ARM Cortex-A8 CPU.
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In early 2011, Samsung first launched the Exynos 4210 SoC in its Samsung Galaxy S II mobile smartphone.
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The driver code for the Samsung Exynos 4210 was made available in the Linux kernel and support was added in version 3.
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On 29 September 2011, Samsung introduced Exynos 4212 as a successor to the 4210; it features a higher clock frequency and "50 percent higher 3D graphics performance over the previous processor generation".
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On 30 November 2011, Samsung released information about their upcoming SoC with a dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 CPU, which was initially named "Exynos 5250" and was later renamed to Exynos 5 Dual.
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On 26 April 2012, Samsung released the Exynos 4 Quad, which powers the Samsung Galaxy S III and Samsung Galaxy Note II.
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Samsung Exynos has hired many ex-AMD, ex-Intel, ex-ARM and various other industry veterans.
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NotebookCheck reported that Samsung Exynos are targeting 2021 for their first SoC with AMD Radeon GPU IP.
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In June 2021, there was news that Samsung Exynos could hire engineers from AMD and Apple to form a new custom architecture team.
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