Google and Samsung are co-developing new Android chips that could give the new Pixel a cost-effective power boost
Long-standing rumors that the Google Pixel 6 would be powered by the Snapdragon 775 or 780G could be completely inaccurate. Instead, Google will reportedly follow in Apple’s and Samsung’s footsteps and develop its own CPU for its fall 2021 phone lineup. 9to5Google reports that the Pixel 6 – and presumably the Pixel 6 XL as well – will run off of the GS101 Whitechapel chip. Whitechapel is the codename for Google’s in-house production of its own system-on-a-chip (SoC). We also know that the Whitechapel SoCs are being co-developed by Samsung, which has SoC experience making its own Exynos chips. Presumably, these Whitechapel chips are solely for Google’s phones; but theoretically, some version of this SoC could also end up in the Samsung Galaxy S22 lineup, too.
