The upcoming Exynos 2400 may be Samsung's last SoC with an AMD GPU, and the latest rumors suggest that the Korean company wants to develop its own custom solution. Earlier, there were reports that the two companies had renewed their licensing agreement, but the terms may only be valid for a limited time.
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Exynos 2500 has been rumored for months. Some people call it Samsung's "dream chip". Its launch will help consolidate Samsung's position in the fiercely competitive smartphone industry. On the X, @OreXda posted that there are "signs" that the GPU collaboration between Samsung and AMD is coming to an end, as the former aims to pursue independence by developing custom GPUs by 2025.
This custom solution is only part of the bigger picture, though, as the post states that Samsung intends to improve its competitiveness in various fields, including automotive and artificial intelligence, and this appears to be only possible through in-house GPUs. Another reason why Samsung may terminate its cooperation with AMD is the poor performance of the Xclipse920 GPU installed in the Exynos2200.
In addition to better ray tracing performance than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, the GPU also lags behind the competition in pure rasterization, and while Xclipse 940 in the upcoming Exynos 2400 is said to be an improvement on paper specs, it likely won't perform any better. Samsung was previously rumored to be working on a custom GPU, but we'd heard nothing more than that until today.
Samsung did use a custom Mongoose CPU design before, but its performance and efficiency numbers were poor against rivals, forcing the company to abandon future cores and stick with ARM's designs, which it has been doing for a while now. The hope is that these custom GPUs and other solutions will help the company gain a strong position against the likes of Apple and Qualcomm.