Today Google has teased its new upcoming Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro telephones; in what is probably going an try and get leaks and the upcoming narrative of the product below management, versus the earlier years of fairly extreme product spoilers a number of months forward of the particular official product launches, the corporate is themselves revealing massive necessary bits in regards to the upcoming new flagship telephones.
Google reveals that this 12 months’s Pixel telephones might be known as the Pixel 6 and the Pixel 6 Pro, two seemingly equally sized units in a high-end configuration with some compromises, and one in an all-bells-and-whistles uncompromising system. In a extra unique prebriefing with The Verge, it’s said that the brand new units might be actually flagship specced telephones competing on the highest finish of the market, marking an necessary step away from the mid-range of the final a number of years. This is a big shift for Google and has been certainly one of our most important criticisms over the previous couple of years – a seeming lack of clear path the place Google needs to be with their Pixel telephones, at the least till now.
The first huge information and affirmation from Google is the truth that the brand new Pixel 6 telephones might be powered by a {custom} SoC that Google has dubbed the “Google Tensor”. For a couple of years now it had been rumoured that Google could be the primary buyer of Samsung LSI’s new semi-custom SoC enterprise – basically a design and manufacture for rent service that will enable OEMs to work very intently with SLSI in designing differentiated merchandise. Essentially this might be the very same enterprise mannequin AMD makes use of in partnership with the console distributors.
What’s fascinating right here is strictly what’s half Google, and what’s half Samsung LSI and stemming off from the Exynos SoC line-up. The one factor that had been assumed and has been confirmed as we speak is that Google is using their very own AI/ML/NPU IP within the new chip, mainly leveraging the corporate’s expertise off their datacentre TPU {hardware} designs and IP, and integrating it into an SoC. In a way, this additionally may be a successor to the Pixel Visual Core, with the massive energy effectivity and price financial savings benefit that Google is now in a position to combine it into the first SoC.
In phrases of different specs of the SoC, there have been no additional particulars revealed presently, however typically given the anticipated fall launch date of the units, it’s typically to be assumed that the chip would function the identical era IP blocks by way of CPU and GPU as different 2021 SoCs such because the Exynos 2100. This wouldn’t be a whole transfer away from previous Pixel system’s launch schedule not matching the trade’s IP launch cadence – I might nonetheless anticipate the Q1 2022 SoCs to vastly out-spec it, however it’s at the least a big enchancment due to the brand new {hardware} differentiation.
The one massive query that continues to be to see is how issues play is by way of the mobile capabilities – notably the system dropping Qualcomm as the popular chipset vendor would additionally imply that this might be the one second different design moreover Qualcomm that includes mmWave connectivity, which might be fascinating to see. Samsung had famous again in 2019 that that they had mmWave modules, and though we didn’t see them in 2020, possibly the brand new Pixel telephones would be the first to function them.
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