As we have talked about earlier than, the
Pixel 10 shall be powered by the Tensor G5 software processor (AP). This would be the first Tensor chip designed from the bottom up by
Google; earlier Tensor chips used a Samsung Exynos AP as a basis whereas Google added some custom-made elements of the chipset. The change will enable Google to design unique Pixel options proper into the chipset. The Tensor G5 can be the primary Tensor SoC constructed by the world’s largest foundry, TSMC. The 4 earlier Tensor APs have been constructed by Samsung Foundry.Contemplating the struggles that Samsung Foundry is having with its yield at 3nm, it’s no shock that TSMC ended up with the job. However
a tipster posted a picture on “X” exhibiting what he says is a prototype of the Tensor G5 AP. The tipster, @Jukanlosreve, wrote, ” I obtained a photograph of a
Pixel 10 prototype chip, and it is marked as SEC (Samsung). It definitely appears that, not less than for the early variations of the
Pixel 10, they have been contemplating having the Tensor G5 manufactured at Samsung Foundry.”@Jukanlosreve might need thought that the SEC marking on the chip stood for Samsung Electronics Firm. Nonetheless, whereas Samsung makes use of that abbreviation in press releases and information articles; it will not be a marking
Samsung would usually use on a completed chip to point that it was made by Samsung Foundry. Additionally, there are indicators that sure numbers on the chip have been hid, presumably to perpetuate the parable that Samsung Foundry constructed a prototype of the Tensor G5.
Leaker @Jukanlosreve says this picture reveals a Tensor G5 prototype constructed by Samsung Foundry. | Picture credit-@Jukanlosreve
However, there’s some indication that Samsung Foundry felt that it will get the job of constructing the Tensor G5. As we informed you final month, Korean monetary publication “The Bell” stated that
Samsung Foundry is investigating why it misplaced the enterprise of constructing the Tensor G5 to TSMC. Whereas that does not show that Samsung foundry constructed a Tensor G5 prototype, it does point out that Samsung might need been stunned by Google’s resolution to have TSMC construct the AP though most analysts weren’t.
Samsung Foundry’s yield issues have resulted within the Samsung unit’s market share declining to 7.7% throughout Q1 2025 from 8.1% in the course of the fourth quarter of final 12 months. In the meantime, TSMC’s share has risen from 67.1% to 67.6% from This autumn 2024 to Q1 2025, respectively.
A very powerful challenge that Samsung Foundry is engaged on is the 2nm Exynos 2600 AP, anticipated to energy the Galaxy S26 and Galaxy S26+ in most markets outdoors of the U.S., Canada, and China. If Samsung makes use of the Exynos 2600 AP in these fashions, in most markets worldwide, the Galaxy S26 fashions utilizing Sammy’s homegrown AP would be the first outfitted by a chip produced utilizing the 2nm course of node.One factor that’s clear is that the Tensor G5 AP is not going to be manufactured by Samsung Foundry and shall be produced by TSMC. The Pixel 10 sequence is rumored to be unveiled on August twentieth and launched on August twenty eighth.
