We Might Not See Google’s First Fully Custom Pixel Chip Until 2025

Alphabet’s Google has delayed the discharge of a completely customized chip for its Pixel smartphones till 2025, The Data reported on Thursday, citing two folks conversant in the matter.

Google initially deliberate to launch the chip, internally known as Redondo, subsequent 12 months to switch the semicustom chips it presently designs with Samsung Electronics, the report stated.

The tech large will even swap from Samsung to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) for making the chips, known as Tensors, in response to The Data.

The world’s largest contract chipmaker counts firms comparable to Apple and Nvidia amongst its prospects.

Google didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark, whereas TSMC declined to remark.

Google will follow Samsung for one more 12 months and wait till 2025 to introduce a completely customized design chip, internally code-named Laguna, in response to The Data.

The Laguna chip shall be based mostly on TSMC’s 3-nanometer manufacturing course of, presently the world’s most superior chipmaking course of, the report added.

Google’s in-house Tensor G2 SoC powers the brand new Pixel 7a and Pixel Fold smartphones that went official in Could in the course of the firm’s I/O occasion. The Tensor G2 SoC can also be current in final 12 months’s Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro fashions. The upcoming Pixel 8 collection smartphones are anticipated to pack the next-generation chipset from Google, the Tensor G3 codenamed “Zuma”. A latest leak suggested that it’s going to function 9 Arm cores and 10 GPU cores with a 1+4+4 format. It might embrace one 3.00GHz Cortex-X3 core, 4 2.45GHz Cortex-A715 cores, and 4 2.15GHz Cortex-A510 cores.

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