He also confirmed that there wouldn’t be a delay in launching the hardware once there is an ecosystem for it. “Our chip will be ready whenever the operating systems and ecosystem go 64-bit. We're pretty sure we're not going to be the bottleneck for that.”
The South Korean manufacturer has high ambitions for the Exynos line of SoCs and has signified its intentions of increasing its market share in the segment. Toward that regard, Hong said that Samsung’s LSI division is actively working on adding new vendors that use Exynos hardware. He did mention that it is initially hard to convince potential customers in the benefits of Samsung hardware, considering that most of these customers are Samsung’s rivals in the mobile or tablet segments. But he did state that there is a clear demarcation between Samsung’s mobile division and its LSI division, and that, “Once we work with our customers, then they fully appreciate this separation between the different business units.” In addition, Hong mentioned that work is underway on creating new products for the mid- and low-tier segments.
