Last month, the Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro were introduced, one of the features of which was the chip. The company positions it as a product of its own development. It was not directly mentioned, but informed sources say that Samsung was involved. New evidence has emerged that the company is trying to sell Exynos under the guise of proprietary Tensor.
Anandtech resource expert Andrei Frumusanu, digging into the Pixel 6 firmware, found code fragments that indicate that Tensor belongs to Exynos chips. In fact, it is an intermediate version between the Exynos 2100 and the Exynos 2200, given the model number Exynos 9845 (S5E9845). FYI: Exynos 2100 chip model number is Exynos 9840 (S5E9840).
This information only confirms that Google did not create the chip from scratch, but went the Exynos customization route. True, serious work has been done on the processor, and especially on its performance. The results are not remarkable, but worthy. It is impossible not to mention a special computational neuromodule that helps speed up and improve photo processing.
It is also worth reminding that the company has extended the device's support period. The sixth-generation Pixel smartphones will receive security updates for five years.
Google is already developing a second-generation Tensor SoC for the next Pixel
Experts have found an interesting reference in the source code of the Pixel 6 smartphones. It mentions what experts believe to be the second generation Google Tensor SoC. The chip mentioned in the code is now codenamed Cloudripper.
It's been suggested that Cloudripper isn't actually a codename for either the upcoming chipset or the alleged Pixel 7. It's likely the codename for the platform used to develop the chip, which we also know as GS201.
The current Tensor chip is the GS101. It is not surprising that the company started developing a new chip immediately after the launch of the current generation model. However, this also means that the Tensor chipset was not a one-off development, but became the progenitor of a new family, like the Apple A4 in 2010.
We will remind you that the Tensor chipset, which is the basis of Pixel 6 smartphones, has a somewhat unusual combination of processor cores. It has two high-performance Cortex-X1 with a frequency of 2,8 GHz, two slightly less powerful Cortex-A76 cores with a frequency of 2,25 GHz and four energy-efficient Cortex-A55 with a maximum clock frequency of 1,8 GHz.
GPU Mali-G78 is responsible for graphics processing. The chipset, like all modern flagship solutions, is made using a 5-nm process.
