Google Pixel 6 uses in-house chip

The Google Pixel 6 will use a processor developed by Google. There have been rumors about this since last year, and now there are new reports.

Like the news portal 9to5Google According to its own sources, the Google Pixel 6 will use an in-house SoC. There have been rumors about it since 2020, the earliest being a forum entry in a Korean Forum assign. At an investor conference this year, Google already announced major investments in the hardware division and a “grandiose road map”. Internally, the development of the company's own chips is to run under the code name “Whitechapel”, the first finished chip is called “GS101”. 9to5Google speculates that the chips may be called “Google Silicon” (because of “GS”), but cannot finally confirm this.

The code name "Slider" also appears again and again in other documents. This appears to be a platform for the company's own SoC. Samsung is also contributing to the development of its own Google chip, and Google appears to have purchased licenses for the use of some Samsung software components. The first two smartphones with the "GS101" processor are being developed under the code names "Raven" and "Oriole" and are expected to be the Pixel 6 and the successor to the Google Pixel 4a with 5G. The name "Pixel 6" is considered certain, but it is unclear at this point whether the second device will be called "Pixel 5a with 5G".

In short: The next Pixel smartphones in the fall will no longer be equipped with Qualcomm processors. Google, like Apple or Samsung, develops its own processors, and Samsung was or still is involved in the development of the Google SoC.