Google is developing central processors in-house for its notebook and tablet computers, confirming that major tech groups see internal chip development as the key to their competitiveness, the whole thing while the semiconductor availability crisis continues. The Californian web giant therefore plans to implement CPUs for laptops and tablets, which run on the Chrome operating system, and this around 2023, according to reports from Nikkei Asia, who cites three sources familiar with the development of this hardware. Naturally Big G was encouraged on this path by the clear success of Apple which with its customized M1 chips has anticipated everyone by offering an extremely competitive product and, above all, optimized to the maximum with its devices. Large companies like Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Tesla, Baidu, and Alibaba Group Holding are also working to build their own semiconductors for their cloud services and electronic products.
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In parallel, Google is stepping up its efforts to build mobile processors for its Pixel smartphones and other devices afterwards announced that it will use internal processor chips – dubbed Tensor – for the first time in its upcoming Pixel 6 series, soon to be released, which are ditching Qualcomm’s chips for the first time.
“The new CPUs and mobile processors that Google is developing are based on the ARM architecture, the British chip company controlled by Softbank whose intellectual property is used in over 90% of the world‘s mobile devices,” Nikkei Asia revealed in a report. . The document also claims that Google is hiring chip engineers around the world, including Israel, India, and Taiwan. Smaller chips can add computing power to devices with limited or passive cooling, such as tablets, thin and light laptops, and cell phones.
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The Pixel 6 will also be Pro, and will have a processor developed by Google
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