Google to Use Its Own Chipset for Pixel and Chromebooks

Concluding week, at that place were reports challenge Google is working on a custom Exynos chipset for Pixel phones. A new report from Axios citing manufacture sources familiar with the matter says the software giant would rather launch information technology under its own name and gives more details near the chipset.

The chipset is designed in co-operation with Samsung and bears the codename "Whitechapel". As we know already, it volition be an octa-cadre ARM processor with two ARM Cortex-A78 cores, two Cortex-A76 cores, and iv Cortex-A55 cores manufactured on Samsung's 5nm process.

According to the report, the chipset would include hardware optimizations for pushing Machine Learning and enhancing the efficiency of "E'er-On" of Google Assistant. Google is already using dedicated fries on its Pixel devices, Neural Core on the Pixel iv for example.

The report doesn't actually come as a surprise since Google had reportedly hired experienced bit designers from Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom, and Nvidia to brand its own chipsets last year. Contrary to the previous report, Google must accept had a change in strategic decisions to announce its own chips to begin with, instead of introducing information technology under Exynos branding and migrating to a native one afterwards on.

Also, the timeline for the availability of this new chip according to Axios' report is next year whereas the former report suggested information technology would be available this year. That is, you could possibly look the new bit on the Pixel vi series.

The availability of Google's chip on Chromebooks (especially Pixelbooks) is expected to take longer even if everything goes according to the plan. With all that said, nosotros will have to wait to run across if Google'southward in-firm chip manages to stand out of the crowd or would end upward being a disappointment for Pixel and Pixelbook enthusiasts.