Google is developing smart phone processors

Google is developing smart phone processors

A report revealed that Google wants to abandon reliance on Qualcomm to provide it with processors, as it is cooperating with Samsung to develop its own processors for use in pixel phones.

According to the source, Google has a project called Whitechapel and is based on cooperation with Samsung that has experience in designing and manufacturing processors.

It will be the first Google processor with eight cores and based on ARM architecture and has been improved to support Google's machine learning techniques and has the continuous work characteristics of Google Voice Assistant.

Samsung will make the new processor for Google, with a 5-nanometer manufacturing accuracy, and is expected to use it in a pixel phone next year. Later, there will be special versions of it to run Chromebook computers.

Google has simpler attempts to enter the world of processors by developing the imaging processor for Pixel 2 phone in cooperation with Intel, as well as camera processors in Pixel 3 and 4, as well as a security unit in the form of an isolated and separate processing chip used to generate keys to decrypt storage and reliable boot.

Thus, this is not the first time that Google has entered the development of processors, but it will be the first time that it has developed a full processor of the type SoC, which is fully feeding the phone. The move preceded the competency process from Intel and Qualcomm.

Even if Google launched its own processor, it still needs other products from Qualcomm such as the modem you provide them and for Apple, which is better than the competing companies such as Samsung, Huawei and MediaTech, because Qualcomm has its own patents.