We may have got another glimpse of the Google Tensor 2 CPU in the developer preview of Android 13.
Up to this point we haven’t heard a whole lot about the Google Pixel 7 supposedly launching later this year, but the early version of Android 13 that’s been pushed out to developers may have revealed some details about the 2022 flagship phone. Some diligent digging by 9to5Google has identified a Samsung modem number called G5300B, which is linked to a chip with the denomination GS201 – in plain terms, that hints at a new Tensor processor from Google with a new modem on board. What’s more, this new GS201 chipset – probably the Google Tensor 2, as per previous leaks – is associated with three devices in the software code, including ones codenamed Cheetah and Panther. Those could well be the codenames for the Pixel 7 and the Pixel 7 Pro smartphones. Some history of Pixel codenames is useful here: the Pixel 6 had the internal moniker Oriole and the Pixel 6 Pro used Raven.
