Google on Monday shared a preview of the upcoming Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro smartphones along with some details on the chipset. The company also confirmed that the Pixel 6 series will be available this fall.
The Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro smartphones will be powered by the company’s all-new custom chipset dubbed Google Tensor. The search engine giant says that the new chip by Google has been designed for Pixel phones.
Sharing the biggest details around the cameras, Google confirmed that the Pixel 6 Pro would sport triple cameras at the back, including a telephoto lens with 4x optical zoom, a first for Pixel phones. Coming to the Pixel 6, which is likely to be the cheaper among the two, doesn’t come with a telephoto sensor.
This is the first time a Google Pixel smartphone will come with an SoC designed by Google, called Google Tensor. The company says that the highlight of the new SoC is that it can handle Google’s most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) directly on the phone. Some of the departments where Google says the difference will be noticeable will be cameras, speech recognition, and similarly other departments.
Google’s not sharing who designed the CPU and GPU, nor is it sharing benchmarks on their performance – though Osterloh says that it should be “market leading.”