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Pixel 6 will be powered by new Google-made 'Whitechapel' chip
9to5Google can report today that Google's upcoming phones for this fall, including the presumed Pixel 6, will be among the first devices to run on the "GS101" Whitechapel chip.
[...] First rumored in early 2020, Whitechapel is an effort on Google's part to create their own systems on a chip (SoCs) to be used in Pixel phones and Chromebooks alike, similar in to how Apple uses their own chips in the iPhone and Mac. Google was said to be co-developing Whitechapel with Samsung, whose Exynos chips rival Snapdragon processors in the Android space.
Per that report, Google would be ready to launch devices with Whitechapel chips as soon as 2021. According to documentation viewed by 9to5Google, this fall's Pixel phones will indeed be powered by Google's Whitechapel platform.
[...] Putting it all together, this fall's Made by Google phones will not use chips made by Qualcomm, but will instead be built on Google's own Whitechapel hardware platform with assistance from Samsung.
Also at The Verge and XDA Developers.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 04 2021, @08:10AM (6 children)
Serious question.... who gives a crap about 6g google 2x processor? There's a quote I read about advertising, something like "Every time I see a great advertisement, I weep for the artist who created it." Same thing applies to the diligent science nerd who finds him/herself coding advertisements for google selling disposable phone crapware. Yay for your dreams and aspirations, young Jedi.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by driverless on Sunday April 04 2021, @11:19AM (4 children)
Google does. There are people who have dared to use things like LineageOS and similar to evade Google's dream of universal surveillance, but no more! Now with the spyware built right into the silicon it doesn't matter what you're running, Google will be watching. And collecting. And analysing. And selling to whoever has the money.
Forget about the Huawei scaremongering bogeyman bullshit, it's Google that's the big brother that we all have to worry about.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 04 2021, @12:14PM (1 child)
My thoughts exactly. I would love to see a phone using something like RISC-V, rather than this proprietary spyware crap they are pushing.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday April 05 2021, @11:04PM
libre-soc [libre-soc.org]
Unfortunately, still a work-in-progress right now.
There's a reason why they are basing it on IBM's power architecture instead of the obvious RISC-V. IBM turned out to be more friendly to a completely open, libre project.
-- hendrik
(Score: 3, Funny) by Frosty Piss on Monday April 05 2021, @12:07AM (1 child)
Destroy your phone and lock yourself in your basement (mom’s, of course) with your one year supply of Mountain Dew, Cheetos, and lube.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 05 2021, @02:55AM
You forgot kleenex...boxes full bro, pallets of it even. MUST HAVE!
(Score: 3, Funny) by SomeGuy on Sunday April 04 2021, @08:11PM
Smartphones are toys for teenage girls. Are there that many teenage girls visiting this web site? Nah, they are too busy buying dresses online with their smart phones.