Google Pixel’s new in-house processor

New chips! © Google Japan.

Following Apple’s lead, which uses processors of its own design, Google is giving up Qualcomm’s SoCs on its next generation of Pixel phones for chips that the company has developed itself with Samsung’s help. We don’t know much about this Google Tensor SoC, aka “Whitechapel”, but we can dream that this 5nm ARM chip will equal or exceed the Snapdragon 888, Qualcomm’s high-end SOC (otherwise, what’s the point?). Unverified sources say that the chip’s virtues are quite ambitious, with an atypical configuration of two 2.8GHz Cortex-X1 cores, two 2.25GHz Cortex-A76 cores and four 1.8GHz Cortex-A55 cores, which is unlike anything currently available. No release date for the Pixel 6 has been announced, so we’ll have to wait to learn more about the Google Tensor’s actual capabilities. With Android 12 slated for release on October 4, we can assume that the Pixel 6 will come out a little later, in mid-October.

⇨ YouTube, “Google Pixel 6：Google の新チップ、いよいよ登場。.”

⇨ Ars Technica, Ron Amadeo, “Shocking Pixel 6 rumor lists Google SoC with two ARM X1 CPU cores.”

2021-09-15