The Mountain View giant has been speculated that it will not be using Qualcomm chips into their Pixel 5 lineup and will be using some custom-developed SoCs. A post on Clien.net last week clarified the specs of the new custom 5 nm Exynos SoC that Google is working in partnership with Samsung.
This SoC is built on Samsung’s 5nm LPE node and is said to feature two Cortex-A78 cores, two Cortex-A76 cores, and four efficient Cortex-A55 cores.
The mobile processor has been codenamed Whitechapel and on the GPU front, the SoC is touted to feature the unreleased Mali MP20 processor with twenty processing units but Google is likely to implement its own ISP and NPU in place of Samsung’s. Axios has even claimed that Google has already received working versions of the chipset.
However, if you might be speculating if this chipset will be used on this years’ Pixel 5 then you’re wrong. Axios has claimed that the Google-designed chip is expected to be ready to power Pixel phones not until 2021 and subsequent versions of Google’s chip could power Chromebooks.
Whitechapel will also include hardware optimized for Google’s machine-learning technology and a portion of its silicon will also be dedicated to improving the performance and “always-on” capabilities of Google Assistant.
Obviously, this move from Google to shift away from Qualcomm is because to cut down costs and for greater control of its business. But as for now, according to reports, the new in-house chip from Google is real and will feature on flagship smartphones in 2021, maybe on the Pixel 6 series and on the future Chromebooks as well.
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