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after many years of the same handful of companies making the processors in our

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computers and phones we're finally seeing some major changes in rapid

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succession amazon rolled out servers based on their own graviton processors

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apple of course announced their groundbreaking apple silicon for macs

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and idevices designed entirely in-house and now google has entered the fray with

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its new tensor processors and although it looks like they'll be manufactured by

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samsung google actually had a major role in designing the chip they had their

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fingers in there but unlike google's tensor processing unit which is an ai

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focused card designed for servers tensor is a mobile focused system on a chip or

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soc meaning it combines a CPU and other computing elements such as RAM modem and

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audio processing together for better efficiency chips like these are the

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mainstays in modern smartphones but only a few companies design their own apple

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with their a series is one example while the majority of Android-powered gadgets

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use off-the-shelf socs from mediatek or qualcomm with samsung's in-house exynos

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chips being a notable exception even google's own pixel lineup has used

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qualcomm chips until now but the end is near and going forward they'll be

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featuring tensor chips but what is a

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tensor chip and why exactly is google moving chip design in-house when it

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might be easier just to outsource it well when there's an app for that was a

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popular catchphrase 10 years ago oh no i don't think most of the people

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using it anticipated how much we would come to expect from our phones

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everything from dslr look-alike photos to high-fidelity gaming to instant ar

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powered translation is this the future but expect all of

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these things we do and as the software that enables these features becomes more

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and more complex some of the familiar hardware inside our phones hasn't kept

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up so instead of using more general purpose processors from an outside

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company google developed tensor so the hardware in its pixel devices would be a

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perfect fit for Android in their words which of course google also develops but

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although we don't have tons of tensor specifications to throw at you right now

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it's pretty clear that much of tensor's silicon is going to be dedicated towards

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image processing which isn't too surprising considering the pixel lineup

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has long featured strong camera performance as a selling point and

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because modern phones rely heavily on ai to make his images look good especially

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important because the sensors inside mobile cameras aren't all that large one

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of google's primary focuses for tensor is for it to deliver speedy performance

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with ai intensive tasks such as improving grainy or blurry nighttime

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photos the enhanced ai capabilities of tensor can take images from the multiple

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lenses on pixel and run several different ai algorithms at once to

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improve picture quality and sharpness even in tough situations including fast

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motion or when there's so much light the picture is in danger of being blown out

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i was born in the light the emphasis on ai should also help with

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voice input this means your phone should be able to better tell the difference

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between which word is a command versus which word is a part of your message

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provide better auto-generated captions if you're watching a video in a foreign

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language and deliver better experiences with apps that use any form of ai such

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as those that detect objects this also means that smartphones with a tensor

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chip won't have to rely as much on cloud ai processing freeing up bandwidth and

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possibly allowing some apps to function without needing a strong connection to

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the cloud because you don't need google to see everything you're doing but how

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long will you need to wait to get your hands on it well google doesn't want to

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just sit on this thing forever especially as it's already behind apple

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in terms of vertically integrating socs into its own phones and the pixel 6

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which will be the first device to feature the tensor chip should be available in fall 2021 google has left

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open the possibility it'll show up in other devices at some point but let's

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see how well their tensor based phones take off first if they do well maybe

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we'll see google stores popping up at malls where everything is painted white

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