What you should know
- A report from a South Korean publication states Google has contacted Samsung Electronics so the corporate can use its 4nm course of on the Tensor G4 chip.
- Google’s subsequent chip would possibly use Samsung’s new 4nm third-generation SF4P course of, a slight improve over the Tensor G3’s SF4 course of.
- The Tensor G4 chip was beforehand rumored to solely provide minimal upgrades for the Pixel 9 sequence after the unique “Redondo” chip was scrapped.
Google is seeking to make some vital strikes relating to the SoC for subsequent 12 months’s Pixel 9 sequence.
As reported by Maekyung, a South Korean publication, Google has apparently put in an order to Samsung Electronics to make use of its new 4nm third-generation SF4P course of (by way of 9to5Google). This iteration ought to present the Tensor G4 with some slight upgrades over the Tensor G3 (packed into the Pixel 8 sequence), which used the SF4 course of.
The upgrades Samsung has been tapped to make use of for Google’s new chip is similar that it is weaved onto the most recent Exynos 2400 SoC. Throughout its announcement, Samsung acknowledged the brand new course of for the chip confirmed a “1.7x improve in CPU efficiency and a exceptional 14.7x enhance in AI efficiency.”
The corporate is occupied with utilizing the chip in some Galaxy S24 units (perhaps for Europe) regardless of it working slower than Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
Extra importantly, Google leaning on Samsung’s shoulder right here is not too stunning as the corporate was rumored to convey solely minor upgrades to the Tensor G4 chip in any case. The chip will allegedly make the most of the “Ripcurrent Professional” growth board, which is a barely up to date model of what the Pixel 8 sequence has to work with.
Furthering that is the potential for its codename, “Zuma Professional,” because the Tensor G3 was named “Zuma.”
The reasoning behind this is because of Google’s delay of its “Redondo” chip challenge, which was initially deliberate for the Pixel 9 sequence. Google was planning on shifting away from Samsung in favor of TSMC for the Tensor G4 chip, and it possible would’ve introduced in additional notable modifications if not for its American and Indian groups falling aside.
That is all, after all, part of Google’s endgame plans of turning into a real in-house developer of its personal chipset. The corporate is outwardly seeking to have full management over the event of its Tensor chip by 2025 for challenge “Laguna.” That is shaping as much as arrive because the Tensor G5, constructed on a 3nm course of.