Google is reportedly turning to Samsung again to produce its next Tensor chip. The South Korean company would therefore be responsible for manufacturing the new generation of the Google chip which will integrate the Pixel 7 in the fall.
The ties between Google and Samsung would continue to tighten. Already partners on the first generation of Google’s Tensor chip, which will be found in the Pixel 6a at the end of July. Samsung would now work on designing the next SoC from the Californian manufacturer, which until now was based on a 5 nm architecture.
A new architecture with state-of-the-art CPUs
The information relayed by SamMobile via a Korean publication of DDaily tells us that the Tensor 2 chip will enter manufacturing on the Samsung foundry side by June and that it will use a more efficient 4 nm architecture this time. Last year’s SoC Tensor used older CPUs, and it will be interesting to see how a Google chip using the latest cores performs. This time around, we can expect Samsung to use the latest CPUs with two Cortex-X2 cores, two Cortex-A710 cores and four Cortex-A510 cores. The Google chip would also arrive with a new GPU that we currently find in the SoC Dimensity 9000 from MediaTek, the Mali-G710.
Heating problems to be expected?
Samsung’s 4nm architecture could pose a problem though, as it’s the same architecture used on the latest Exynos 2200, had a hard time managing the temperature of Samsung’s smartphones compared to Qualcomm’s offering, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. The chip should make its debut with the Pixel 7, Google’s next flagship expected for October that we could glimpse at the Google I / O 2022. Hopefully this time the problem having invaded Samsung’s chips do not resurface at another manufacturer. This was not the case with the first generation, but we are not immune to a surprise.
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