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Google has hired key chip designer Manu Gulati from Apple to work on future Pixel models. Manu Gulati has been working at Apple since 2009 helping develop the custom CPUs used in iPads and iPhones and has now moved on to Google as lead chip architect. Pixel and Pixel XL have so far relied on Snapdragon chips from Qualcomm which lag considerably behind Apple's SOCs. Googles appears to be reconsidering this strategy in an effort to better integrate it's software and hardware improving performance and battery life. Android makers have long foregone the lead to Apple in mobile performance but this may signal a turning point in this strategy.
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When I met th'POPE back in '58, I scrubbed him with a MILD SOAP or
DETERGENT for 15 minutes. He seemed to enjoy it ...
(Score: 1) by oakgrove on Thursday June 15 2017, @08:11AM (1 child)
I just hope when Google is finished whatever they're doing and come out with something that it'll still be easy to unlock the bootloader, and make custom ROMs. For the current crop of Snapdragons, my understanding is it's more or less easy depending on how much extra effort the OEM puts into securing this stuff. Not so much for Exynos, Hisilicon, Mediatek, etc. stuff.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Thursday June 15 2017, @09:14AM
Trying to sell me that kind of stuff is like trying to sell be a box of machine bolts no wrench in my toolbox will fit.
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