Google is developing its own processor for Pixel Phones & Chromebooks

Most of the top technology companies are currently developing their own processors. Looking at the world, the mobile processor market is currently dominated by Qualcomm Snapdragon series.

The latest rumor is that Google has already developed its own processor, which also has 8 cores based on the ARM architecture, and the Google processor may be available next year as soon as possible.

Apple’s own development of processors has been started many years ago, and the A-series processors currently used in iOS series devices are developed by Apple itself.

Samsung has also developed processors and launched the Orion series of mobile processors from many years ago. At present, this series of processors are used on some smartphones of Samsung.

Huawei’s processors are mainly developed by Huawei’s HiSilicon semiconductor. Among them, mobile processors are mainly HiSilicon Kirin series, which are currently used on Huawei smartphones.

Microsoft started to carry SQ1 processors on some products since last year, but this processor was customized in cooperation with Qualcomm, and should not be considered a self-developed processor.

Now that Google has joined the mobile processor battlefield, according to Axios reports, Google is currently developing a mobile processor code-named Whitechapel.

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The mobile processor, code-named Whitechapel, will be used on Google’s own Pixel series of smartphones and Google Chromebook laptops.

Google develops its own processors mainly for highly customized chips, and Google uses machine learning technology for these processors to optimize the overall performance of the processor.

At the same time, these chips will also include Google’s R & D machine learning and image processor chips, so that Google can compete with Apple in terms of processors.

In terms of manufacturing, Google will collaborate with Samsung for production by Samsung using a 5-nm process. The chip architecture is mainly based on ARM and has 8 cores.

If it goes well, Google will use the chip in the Pixel 6 series launched next year, and this year’s Pixel 5 series will still use Qualcomm processors.