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There are rumors in the market that the Tensor processing chip installed on the Google Pixel mobile phone will be manufactured by TSMC. It will break up with Samsung, which is currently cooperating with it. Many Google fans are looking forward to further upgrades in performance and battery life. However, according to a report by foreign media “Android Authority”, this Tensor chips built by TSMC will be delayed until 2025.
“The Information” once reported that Google plans to cooperate with TSMC to produce chips for the 2024 Pixel mobile phone chip “Redondo”. However, the latest news from “Android Authority” points out that because Google has missed the deadline, the plan has been postponed. Pixel 10 by 2025.
It is reported that the Tensor G3 chip expected to be used in this year’s Pixel 8 will be developed under the codename Zuma, and next year’s Tensor G4 will be Zuma Pro. Both are still co-designed in collaboration with Samsung, and the naming method is the same as Tensor G1 and G2, implying that Google The upgrade range of the two generations of products is probably quite limited.
“AndroidAuthority” further pointed out that the current Tensor chip is still only considered “semi-homemade” by Google, and many technologies rely on Samsung’s assistance. However, as the internal team gradually grows, it has the ability to move towards “fully homemade”. In the future, Google will need to purchase licenses from chip IP manufacturers such as Arm, Cadence, and Synopsys, and rewrite the structure and software design, and then contact chip foundries such as TSMC on its own. Although it is not an easy path, it will allow Google to have more control over Tensor chips. High autonomy, and launch better chips than Samsung.
Although there will be limited progress in Tensor chips this year and next, this year’s Pixel 8 has the opportunity to be significantly better than the previous generation Pixel 7, mainly benefiting from Samsung’s 4nm process technology improvement and new structure, which can enable Pixel 8 to have better image calculations Ability to even improve previous heat dissipation problems.
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