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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday June 15 2017, @03:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the where-is-that-non-compete dept.

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15 2017, @11:25AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15 2017, @11:25AM (#525951)

    Look, I don't care what your benchmarks say. Especially benchmarks from an Android site. Every single other respected review and hardware site on the net including Anandtech says the cores in the A series are far beyond the rest of the industry in overall performance and IPC. Personally, I've used an iPhone and I'll believe my own eyes before anything else. Claiming that a Snapdragon 821 is faster than an A9 or A10 is prima facie laughable. It's this attitude of head-in-the-sand fanboyism that got us in this state in the first place. Google appears to finally be doing something about it and I say kudos to them.

  • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Thursday June 15 2017, @12:19PM (1 child)

    by Nerdfest (80) on Thursday June 15 2017, @12:19PM (#525962)

    You don't seem to be reading the actual words in the post above yours. Of course if you're saying "I don't care what your benchmarks say" I guess it's irrelevant.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15 2017, @12:34PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15 2017, @12:34PM (#525970)

      Then how do you explain the overwhelming superiority of the A10X in single core Geekbench scores? Yeah, I know "Geekbench doesn't count yadda yadda". Except it does though.