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Google's Next Pixel Phone Will Be Powered by a Custom Chip

What do you do when advancements in software outpace those in hardware? Codesigned over the past four years with machine learning and artificial intelligence experts, it’s built for all the Android-based wizardry in the upcoming Pixel phones. When Osterloh says “several years ago,” he's referring to the first computer chip Google revealed back in 2016. Google calls the chip Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU, a nod to the company's open source machine learning platform TensorFlow. By building its own custom mobile chip, Google isn't just juicing its phones with Google-y artificial intelligence; it's joining the ranks of Apple and Samsung, which both design custom silicon for their top-of-the-line consumer electronics.

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