Speculations swirled last year that Google might replace Snapdragon chipsets with its own smartphone chips. The company has reportedly partnered with Samsung to produce a high-end chipset for the Pixel smartphones. Now, the first leaks about this chip, which could be the first to power the upcoming Pixel 6 informace.
According to 6to9Google, the Pixel 5 will be equipped with Google's GS101 chip (codenamed Whitechapel). Samsung's semiconductor subsidiary Samsung Semiconductor, or rather its SLSI division, was said to have participated in its development, and it is said to be manufactured using the Korean technology giant's 5nm LPE process. It means that it will have some common features with its Exynos chipsets, including software components. However, it is possible that Google will replace Samsung's default components, such as the neural unit (NPU) or the image processor, or already replaced, with his own.
According to another report brought by the website XDA Developers for a change, Google's first mobile chipset will have a tri-cluster processor, a TPU unit and an integrated security chip codenamed Dauntless. The processor should have two Cortex-A78 cores, two Cortex-A76 cores and four Cortex-A55 cores. It will also reportedly use an unspecified 20-core Mali GPU.
Google should launch the Pixel 6 (and its larger version, the Pixel 6 XL) sometime in the third quarter of this year.
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