According to media reports, Google has decided to hand over the Tensor application processor for its next-generation smartphone, the Pixel 8, to Samsung Electronics using a 3nm process, which is expected to be launched in the second half of next year.
Tensor is a mobile chip developed by Google last year and was first used in the Google smartphone Pixel 6 in 2021. before 2020, Google had been using Qualcomm's mobile chip, but successfully developed Tensor with the support of Samsung Electronics. from the foreign media reports, to Samsung Electronics OEM, will also continue to strengthen the two companies in the smartphone application processor on the The cooperation between the two companies on smartphone application processors will continue.
Google's third-generation Tensor processor to be OEM'd by Samsung Electronics, sources say
Google's share of the global smartphone market was only 3% at the end of last year, a very low share in a saturated smartphone market, far from the huge share held by their operating system, as mentioned in some reports.
For now, Tensor is only for smartphones. But Google plans to expand its own chip applications to tablets, laptops and servers through its chip expansion strategy.
In addition, some experts believe that Google is unlikely to use Samsung Electronics' 3nm process to OEM Tensor processors for them, as Google's Pixel series of smartphones, which are not expensive high-end devices requiring cutting-edge technology, are expected to be equipped with processors using the 4nm process.
