Google to launch own processor for upcoming Pixel phones – Hardware

Google will use processors created in-home for its Pixel telephones launching later this year, in a shift absent from Qualcomm Inc’s technology that has driven the look for giant’s Android equipment for much more than fifteen decades.

The processor, identified as Tensor, will energy the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Professional telephones, Google claimed in a weblog article, with the corporation set to disclose much more particulars nearer to the release.

Shares of Qualcomm, the world’s greatest maker of wi-fi chips for smartphones, have been down marginally in afternoon buying and selling.

Google claimed the subsequent Pixel cellular phone, 5a, would however have a Qualcomm processor.

“We will proceed to function intently with Google on current and upcoming products and solutions centered on Snapdragon platforms,” a Qualcomm spokesperson claimed in a statement.

Final year, Apple began working with its personal central processor created for Macs, in a move absent from chipmaker Intel.