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Google Tensor 2 goes to Samsung
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One of the big changes in the Pixel 6 series is that Google has moved to its own chip in the Tensor SOC and the next generation chip in the Pixel 7 series is expected.
- If you want to catch the tensor, here is what you need to know about it.
- In a nutshell: Google and Samsung have collaborated on the design of the LSI Tensor chip and Samsung has also developed it.
- Somewhat naturally, the chip shared many of the underpinnings of the Exynos 2100, such as features like power management and clock management architecture that were said to be using Exynos core designs.
- However, the title suggests that Google has worked closely with Samsung in both the design and production of Silicon, while Google has its own Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), which Google itself worked on.
And, it happens again:
- News through Korean media DDaily.co.kr Indications that Samsung has again won orders for Google’s next-generation smartphone AP, the second-generation tensor chip Pixel 7.
- Samsung Electronics will mass-produce Google’s Pixel 7 series chips from June.
- Quotes from machine translation: “The second generation tensor is said to be made in the 4nm process of Samsung Electronics. In the post process, Panel Level Package (PLP) technology is introduced. PLP is a packaging technique where chips cut from a wafer are placed on a rectangular panel. It is possible to reduce the cancellation edge, thereby reducing costs and improving productivity. “
- (In that sense, what could be the meaning of the earliest Pixel 7 list on eBay? Is there a chip in it, let’s assume it’s true? Who knows.)
Compilation:
- Big details: The second-generation SoC is built on a 4-nanometer process (an improvement to 5nm today), and the use of PLP that can save some cost, and the start of production in June.
- One question I see enthusiasts asking is which modem will it use.
- Tensor uses Samsung’s own Exynos modem 5123 as an external chip (e.g., not integrated into the SoC.)
- Most enthusiasts would prefer a Qualcomm modem, especially integrated into SoC to improve efficiency. And Qualcomm modems are considered better, with better signal strength, lower dropout or patch connection, and less battery drain than the Exynos variant. The differences seem to have changed, but the reports include such things The field test of the Pixel 6 Pro shows about half the practical speed of a Qualcomm device Such an iPhone. (Anyway, remember when Qualcomm went crazy about all this SoC stuff on Twitter?)
- Reports are that Google / Samsung will use a new Exynos Modem 5300, which we haven’t seen announced yet, so it’s not clear how much action the Tensor 2 will take, but it will be of great interest to enthusiasts.
Roundup
📳 Google has leaked leakers in I / O: Evan Blass (evleaks) and Steve Hemmerstoffer (OnLeaks). (Android Authority).
🍎 দ The Apple Watch could get a camera? A new patent has been filed, and one of the inventors of the Apple Watch’s digital crown, Tyler S. Bushnell, included in the patent list (Gizmodo).
📺 Er: Netflix is testing a password sharing crackdown but Looks like it’s not going wellMisleading people in the test market: Misleading messaging for ignoring new rules, or no response (yet) (Rest of the world).
Quotes:
- Dolphins can get to know their friends by tasting their urine, a new study has found. By sipping each other’s urine samples, dolphins display a kind of social recognition that begins with the exchange of flutes that are unique to a particular person – much like a human name.
- By tasting each other’s urine and identifying the source, the dolphins showed that they could track the dolphin’s identity using two types of sensitive inputs. This means that animals can create and store mental images of other dolphins, according to new research.
- The results were published in the May 18 journal Advances in science.
- This is somewhat healthy, but it proves that dolphins a) have a specific whistle or name for their dolphin friends and b) verify it through urine.
Cheers,
Tristan Rainer, Senior Editor
