The Google Tensor G2 is expected to offer better battery life & connectivity
Based on the report from SamMobile, this chip has been produced using Samsung Foundry’s 4nm LPE process. That part is actually wrong, as Google confirmed this is a 5nm chip, not a 4nm one. It comes with the Samsung Exynos 5300 5G modem, which is a considerable improvement over the Shannon A5123 which was included in the first-gen tensor. The Shannon A5123 was one of the main culprits for battery draining in the Pixel 6 series, allegedly. It also had something to do with the iffy connectivity most probably, though we can’t be sure. The Exynos 5300 5G model should bring improvements across the board. It remains to be seen how good the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro battery life is, though. We’re currently testing both smartphones. The Google Tensor G2 is the company’s second-gen processor. It comes with two ARM Cortex-X1 CPU cores, two ARM Cortex-A78 CPU cores, and four ARM Cortex-A55 CPU cores. Those sets of cores are running at 2.85GHz, 2.35GHz, and 1.8GHz, respectively.
This chip comes with the ARM Mali-G710 GPU with seven cores
The ARM Mali-G710 GPU is also included in the package, and it has seven cores. The Tensor G2 works in collaboration with the Titan M2 security chip provided by Google (inside the Pixel 7 series). The second-gen EdgeTPU chip is also here, for AI demands. The Google Tensor did a fine job inside the Pixel 6 series, though many blame tons of bugs on that chip. The Pixel 6 series was plagued with bugs, and those could be the growing pains of a first-gen product (the SoC). It remains to be seen how will the Pixel 7 series fare.
