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Google's Next Phone Chip Will Be Faster, and Still Not Fast Enough

Gizmodo·Kyle Barr·21 days ago
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We may not need Jimmy Fallon to squawk “Tensor” to get a little more excited about the performance of Google’s next phone. The Tensor G6 could be the Pixel maker’s most powerful chip yet. But if you’ve been keeping track of Google’s Tensor’s performance over the last few generations, that may not be saying much. With Samsung’s latest Galaxy S26 phones making use of a 3nm Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 CPU, Google’s answer is to craft something that’s potentially more efficient. Last week, Telegram hardware leaker Mystic Leaks shared more details about the Tensor G6 chip built for Google’s new hardware. The Tensor G6 is designed again by TSMC, and it’s built on a new 2nm process node. The Samsung Exynos 2600 was one of the first smartphone chips to offer the size of node, but we haven’t seen it featured in a device you can buy, at least not yet. The reason why 2nm is significant is because it means you can pack more transistors onto a chip the thickness of a fingernail.…

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