Google Pixel 6 and Google Pixel 6 Pro are the first smartphones from the Mountain View house to have a home-built chip, the much-talked-about Tensor. But what if we told you that the first could have been the Google Pixel 5?
An XDA developer has found some elements that would prove tests of the Tensor chip already with Google Pixel 5, a smartphone that was released in early autumn 2020 with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G SoC. Digging a bit into the kernel files he came across two variants of the Tensor chip, internally referred to as gs101.
The first has as code name gs101-b0, the second gs101-a0: we know that the first is the SoC used on the two Google Pixel 6, while it is the first time that we come across the second version. Digging a little more, the developer managed to discover that the latter would be connected to a device with code name Whitefin, which already popped up a few months ago: well it could be a variant of Google Pixel 5 with Tensor chip.
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This probably means that the Mountain View house has already tested the SoC with the “old” Pixel. Have you never seen the light for some problem or because it was just a few tests? Didn’t it turn out to be ready for launch and therefore was postponed to later models? Maybe.