From time to time, there are failures in supply chains, and incomplete products are not received
Proprietary processor
But tech giants like Google canafford development in many areas, so they decided to create their own mobile processor. Rumors about the imminent appearance of its chipset at Google crawled three years ago, after the number one search engine in the world hired an ex-designer of processors and Apple. Moreover, the rumors turned out to be true, since a little later the first processor of its development, Pixel Visual, which processed the images, was presented.
After a while, Google introduced the chipsecurity under the name Titan M, as well as a powerful core for Pixel Neural AI tasks, the latter has replaced Visual Core. But at that time it all ended, in any case, there were no visible signs that the company was developing an alternative to Snapdragon. However, time passes, and soon everything can dramatically change.
Specialized publications report that the Internet giantseriously advanced in the development of his first processor. The chipset still has a temporary index “Whitechapel”, and the development takes place with the involvement of specialists from the Korean company Samsung.
Koreans will help
An insider said that Koreans themselvesthey produce their own Exynos processor, they will produce chipsets for their partners using their 5 nanometer process technology. This suggests that the future processor from Google will be all right with energy efficiency, and judging by the fact that they learned how to make powerful kernels, there will be no problems with performance
Much work remains to be done, and unfortunately, tothe fifth-generation Pixel will not be ready for its processor, since it will be released at the end of this year. And the processor has so far only appeared in the form of several working prototypes. Experts believe that the chipset will be completely ready by the beginning of 2021, and this makes it possible to equip these processors with their sixth generation flagship - Pixel 6.
Not just for smartphones
In addition, the company plans to use itsthe upcoming processor not only in smartphones, but also on your Chromebook. In principle, if the performance of the new chipset is no worse than that of Qualcomm, then even medium-sized laptops will fully pull, because Snapdragon today has more than one laptop model. And Google will have an advantage in terms of the possibility of optimizing hardware for its OSes or OSes for its own processor.
Diversification
Most gadget manufacturers on Androiduse chipsets from Qualcomm or Mediatek as an iron platform. Of course, the products are very good, especially for an American company, but developing your own processor, which will be sharpened specifically for your product, always has advantages. An example is Apple with its A13 processor.
And independence from problems and whimsa third-party chipset manufacturer won't hurt either. For example, Qualcomm decided that it was time to integrate a 5G modem into the processor, and companies were forced to buy these expensive processors, despite the fact that they do not need this module at this stage, because there are no 5G networks as such, they deployed in several cities around the world. So why buy an additional expensive module that will not be relevant for a couple of years.
The costs of smartphone builders are growing. They are forced to raise the final price tags, sales are falling, in general, solid nerves. And its own chipset will significantly reduce costs, and not depend on the supplier, not only in terms, but also in the configuration of the processors.
Rumor has it that the upcoming processor willcombine 8 cores A78, A76, as well as A55. The integrated graphics accelerator Mali MP20 will be responsible for the graphics. A special unit for working with neural networks will also be developed. The chipset itself will be sharpened for working with Google’s AI itself, which will make it possible to expand the capabilities on smartphones for Google Assistant.