The second generation of Google Tensor chips, which are expected to be powered by the first Pixel 7 seriesThe second generation of Google Tensor chips, which are expected to be powered by the first Pixel 7 series

The second generation of Google Tensor chips, which are expected to be powered by the first Pixel 7 series

Google's Pixel 6 line officially went on sale yesterday, and 9to5 Google reports that by studying the Pixel 6's apps, the team found a Pixel-related code name: "Cloudripper", which is believed to be the code name for the Pixel 7 series' common baseboard or development board. The Pixel 6 line previously shared a baseboard code-named "Slider."

The Cloudripper is likely to have something to do with Google's second generation of Tensor chips. That's because of the code reference to GS201, which is the counterpart to the Pixel 6 Tensor chip GS101. The GS201, which is likely to be part of the Pixel 7 series, will be an upgrade of a Tensor chip that may be indicative of Google's plans for the second generation of the device in its flagship Pixel 7 series next year. We hope that the second Tensor chip, when it is unveiled next year, will give us an even bigger surprise.

Tensor, Google's first self-built chip, has two 02ghz ARM Cortex-X1 superlarge cores. Two 2.3GHz ARM Cortex-A76 cores; Four 1.8GHz ARM Cortex-A55 cores; And a 20-core ARM Mali-G78 graphics processor. It has an eight-core solution that is more radical than Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 with two superlarge cores. It also has a special TPU module for AI computing, which makes for a chip that has the most impressive performance yet on AI computing.