Google Developed Custom Chip for its Pixel Smartphone

Google's upcoming Pixel 6 smartphones would be powered by in-house chip Tensor. The company plans to launch the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro devices later this year.

The software giant stated AI and machine learning features enabled by the system-on-chip (SoC) silicon would unlock specific experiences on its handsets. Its current series, the Pixel 5, uses a Qualcomm chipset.

“The team that designed our silicon wanted to make Pixel even more capable,“ Google said in its corporate blog. “With Tensor we thought about every piece of the chip and customised it to run Google’s computational photography models. For users, this means entirely new features, plus improvements to existing ones.“

Alongside enabling specific consumer features, Google claimed the security core on Tensor combined with the device’s integrated Titan M2 chip would give the Pixel 6 handsets the most layers of hardware security in any phone on the market. In a social media post Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the chip had been four years in development.