So long as we’re all consumed by Google I/O immediately, let’s go ahead in our time machine to subsequent 12 months when the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Professional, and Pixel 10 Professional XL are on the horizon. There shall be pleasure constructing as a result of the Pixel 10 is anticipated to be powered by the Tensor G5 software processor (AP) that shall be nothing like your grandfather’s Google Tensor chipset. In response to
“X” leaker @Revegnus1 (by way of
Wccftech), the Tensor G5 AP shall be constructed by TSMC utilizing the latter’s second-generation 3nm course of node (N3E).
The Tensor chipsets have at all times been manufactured by Samsung Foundry which is smart contemplating that these SoCs are primarily based on Samsung’s Exynos APs. For instance, the Pixel 9 collection shall be powered by the Tensor G4 which is predicated on the Exynos 2400. But when @Revegnus1 is true, manufacturing of the Google Tensor chipset is transferring to Taiwan.
From the G1, which used a CPU and GPU designed by Samsung, Google has been slowly taking up the design of the Tensor SoC to the purpose the place it now designs the Tensor’s GPU and may actually have a hand in designing the CPU on the G4, Whereas it is not clear whether or not Google or Samsung will design the G4’s CPU, Google is anticipated to create the chipset’s GPU. The G5 would be the first Tensor chipset to be fully custom-made by Google as a substitute of partially custom-made by the corporate like previous Tensor chips have been.
The Tensor G5 for the Pixel 10 collection shall be constructed by TSMC utilizing its second-gen 3nm course of node
The tweet from @Revegnus1 famous that Google is increasing its R&D heart in Taiwan and is filling the middle with semiconductor engineers. This might seem like a plan by Google to get extra concerned with TSMC within the constructing of the primary completely custom-made Google chipset.
So should you have been fascinated by updating to the Pixel 9 collection, you may wish to anticipate the Pixel 10 to be launched with the primary Tensor SoC fully custom-made by Google. Whereas the Exynos 2400 chipset that the G4 is predicated on is a serviceable AP, Google ought to have the ability to create options within the Pixel 10 that it may well provide solely as a result of the G5 is not primarily based on the blueprint of a Samsung Exynos chip.
Do not take this modification flippantly. The Tensor G5 AP might launch a brand new period of Pixel handsets delivering the kind of excellent efficiency that you’ve at all times been hoping to expertise out of your Pixel telephone.
