New studies say the Pixel 6 will characteristic a customized Google “Whitechapel” SoC

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It seems like this practice Google SoC-powered Pixel is actually going to occur. Echoing studies from a few yr in the past, 9to5Google is reporting that the Pixel 6 is predicted to ship with Google’s customized “Whitechapel” SoC as a substitute of a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip.

The report says “Google refers to this chip as “GS101,” with “GS” probably being quick for “Google Silicon.” It additionally notes that chip might be shared throughout the 2 Google telephones which can be at the moment in growth, the Pixel 6 and one thing like a “Pixel 5a 5G.” 9to5 says it has seen documentation that factors to Samsung’s SLSI division (Staff Exynos) being concerned, which strains up with the sooner report from Axios saying the chip is “designed in cooperation with Samsung” and must be constructed on Samsung’s 5nm foundry strains. 9to5Google says the chip “may have some commonalities with Samsung Exynos, together with software program elements.”

XDA Builders says it could actually corroborate the report, saying “In keeping with our supply, it appears the SoC will characteristic a three cluster setup with a TPU (Tensor Processing Unit). Google additionally refers to its subsequent Pixel units as ‘dauntless-equipped telephones,’ which we consider refers to them having an built-in Titan M safety chip (code-named “Citadel).” A “three cluster setup” can be one thing like how the Snapdragon 888 works, which has three CPU core sizes: a single giant ARM X1 core for large single-threaded workloads, three medium Cortex A78 cores for multicore work, and 4 Cortex A55 cores for background work.