Samsung No-showed On Its Major Exynos 2200 Launch (arstechnica.com) 18
ArsTechnica: So here's a crazy story. Samsung was supposed to have a big SoC launch on Tuesday, but that launch did not happen. Samsung didn't cancel or delay the event. The January 11 date was announced, but when the time for the event came, nothing happened! Samsung pulled a no-call no-show for a major product launch. [...] The Exynos 2200 was (?) shaping up to be a major launch for Samsung. It is, after all, the first Samsung SoC with the headline-grabbing feature of having an AMD GPU. The two companies announced this deal a year ago, and we've been giddy about it ever since. The Exynos 2200 is (or was) going to debut in the Galaxy S22. That launch event is currently scheduled for February 8, assuming Samsung doesn't ghost everyone again.
It's due to COVID. (Score:2)
Re: It's due to COVID. (Score:2)
Yeah, it's amazing how a pandemic could have ripple effects into the economy. Who'd have thunk?
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Ripple effects, sure. Cancelled events, sure. That's to be expected.
A ghosted event that YOU were supposed to be throwing, though? What, Covid killed all the marketing people involved in setting it up so no one was left to say, "Sorry guys, we ain't doing this after all."?
Re: It's due to COVID. (Score:2)
Distancing restrictions/people not at work can easily lead to missed deadlines. Unless marketing is comprised of actual ghosts at this point, it's just incompetence.
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They have had two years to figure out how to work remotely. That excuse doesn't fly at this stage.
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Playtime Is Over (Score:2)
According to their tweet. Maybe they decided to take their GPU and go home.
Green Screen Problem ? (Score:2)
Missed the launch event, S22 to still have Exynos (Score:2)
https://9to5google.com/2022/01... [9to5google.com]
Ars making a mountain out of a molehill? (Score:2)
As far as I can tell, there wasn't any event announcement - just an earlier teaser tweet from Samsung that mentioned January 11.
So it basically sounds like Samsung delayed a press release. Big whoop.
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Ars making a mountain out of a molehill?
Or is it Ron making a mountain out of a molehill? ;-)
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In which case something is happening on January 11. Samsung said something is being shown on January 11, everyone but Samsung showed up (virtually).
It's one thing to say "We've got something to show on January 11, stay tuned!" and another to simply let the date come by and pass without a peep. Not even a "Sorry,
Soc? (Score:1)
Googling this tells me that this might be a System On A Chip, but I had to do some searching.
Security Operations Center?
Summer of Code (I think that is or was a Google thing - does it still exist?)
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bravo for using google before posting, but you really need to improve your google-fu.
It's an exynos 2200 SoC... So perhaps instead of giving up after googling SoC and getting an indeterminate answer... you should have googled "exynos" since it is a specific example of the "SoC" you are looking for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Then, several links in the first sentence with hover help for the relevant SoC / system-on-chip definition.
Rumored SoC thermal issues (Score:2)
https://weibo.com/5673255066/L... [weibo.com]
"After nailing the news of the event cancellation, Ice Universe added on Sina Weibo that the AMD GPU [in the Exynos 2200 SoC] is having problems - specifically, heat problems. The target frequency is apparently 1.9 GHz, but companies are currently only seeing reasonable thermals at 1.29 GHz. This is resulting in lots of infighting at Samsung about who dropped
We the disappointed tech consumers . . . (Score:2)
Too many good ideas and wondrous products (that didn't really exist) either materialized way too late, or not at all.
An Apple-like veil of secrecy would do a world of good for everyone . . . just don't tell marketing before you tell the customers . . . ever.