Tensor's New SoC Shows Off, The Fate Of Qualcomm And Google's Close Relationship Is In Question

Google confirmed the latest line of smartphones Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro will be coming soon. (photo: Doc. Google)

JAKARTA - Through its social media, Google has just confirmed that the latest line of smartphones Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro will be coming soon. It is claimed that the two smartphones will use the company's SoC, dubbed Tensor.

This custom Tensor chip, codenamed Whitechapel, will have lower performance than the Snapdragon 888. This is understandable considering that Google places greater emphasis on AI performance, computational photography, videography, improved speech recognition, security, and more for their SoC.

This surprising news of course makes everyone think whether Google will dominate the chip market in the future, considering the company has quite close ties to Qualcomm, with the presence of Tensor, is it true that Google will also forget about Qualcomm?

Reported by CNBC International via Wccftech, Wednesday, August 4, the rumor was dispelled with Google stating that it had no intention of severing its relationship with Qualcomm. The two entities will continue to work together to create products based on the Snapdragon platform.

Speculation arose that Google would stick with Qualcomm's SoC for Pixel devices in the mid-range successor to the Pixel 5a series and that would not be possible without a Snapdragon 5G modem. Google also doesn't have a network modem development division, that's why the company is still embracing Qualcomm.

Other rumors also emerged, because the Tensor SoC is produced by Samsung, there is a possibility that Google will use the modem belonging to the South Korean giant. Unfortunately, until now there is no definite news that Google will use which modem.