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• @sundarpichai Sundar Pichai on x

  So excited to share our new custom Google Tensor chip, which has been 4 yrs in the making (📎 for scale)! Tensor builds off of our 2 decades of computing experience and it's our biggest innovation in Pixel to date. Will be on Pixel 6 + Pixel 6 Pro in fall. https://blog.google/... …

• @deitaone @deitaone on x

  QUALCOMM WILL CONTINUE TO WORK CLOSELY WITH GOOGLE ON EXISTING AND FUTURE PRODUCTS BASED ON SNAPDRAGON PLATFORMS - QUALCOMM SPOKESPERSON $QCOM

• @jioriku McGuire Wood on x

  @jon_prosser May just go Pixel this year...

• @atomicthumbs Site Specific Carnivorous Occurrence on x

  i was excited about this, hoping maybe Google would be doing something along the lines of Apple to finally ditch Qualcomm and make a power-efficient chip, but they're bragging about how it's based off their TPUs and is great for AI bullshit integer ops can go to hell i guess http…

• @slightlylate Alex Russell on x

  E.g., notice how Qualcomm always wants to pivot every conversation to the modem.

• @slightlylate Alex Russell on x

  Now, maybe Google pulled a rabbit out of a hat and did what no other vendor but Apple has: double up those caches! Not holding my breath w/ marketing like this, tho.

• @slightlylate Alex Russell on x

  When CPU vendors *primarily* talk about something other than the CPU perf on their SoCs, you can be preeeety sure they're phoning it in. https://twitter.com/...

• @gizmodo @gizmodo on x

  📲 @samrutherford sat down with Google's phone chief @rosterloh for a preview of the Pixel 6 and the new Google-designed chip that's powering it—yep, those rumors were true, too. https://gizmodo.com/...

• @caitlin_mcgarry Caitlin McGarry on x

  The Pixel 6 looks like an actual iPhone/Galaxy competitor with a Google-designed chip. That's really refreshing after the weirdly cheap-feeling Pixel 5. https://gizmodo.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @madebygoogle @madebygoogle on x

  Here's a sneak peek at the newest Google Phones powered by Google Tensor - the brand new chip designed by Google, custom-made for Pixel. Meet: 📱 #Pixel6 📱 #Pixel6 Pro Both are coming later this year. We'll tell you a little about them in this 🧵 👇 (1/13) https://twitter.com/...

• @madebygoogle @madebygoogle on x

  Material You will be best on #Pixel6. The colors, the camera, the form, and what's on the screen all work together in a single, fluid experience. (9/13) https://twitter.com/...

• @madebygoogle @madebygoogle on x

  We made a chip! #Pixel6 is powered by our first ever smartphone SoC: meet Google Tensor (5/13) https://twitter.com/...

• @madebygoogle @madebygoogle on x

  Hello 📷 bar! #Pixel6 Pro has 3 cameras, including a telephoto lens with a 4x optical zoom. #Pixel6 has the same great cameras as #Pixel6 Pro, just no telephoto. We're leaving telephoto to the pros, you could say 😉 (3/13)

• @madebygoogle @madebygoogle on x

  Switching ⚙️ a bit. Let's talk speech. Speech recognition is another foundational technology where you will see a huge improvement in #Pixel6. Google Tensor allows us to make big leaps in: Voice commands Translation Captioning & Dictation (10/13)

• @madebygoogle @madebygoogle on x

  The highlight of Tensor is that it can process Google's most powerful AI and ML models directly on #Pixel6. You'll see a transformed experience for the camera 📷, speech recognition 🗣️ and many other Pixel 6 features. (6/13)

• @madebygoogle @madebygoogle on x

  Alright. One last piece of info: #Pixel6 and #Pixel6 Pro, powered by the brand new Google Tensor chip, are coming this fall. 🎉 That's all we're going to share for now. 🤐 (12/13)

• @rosterloh Rick Osterloh on x

  Excited to announce Tensor, available on Pixel 6 in the Fall. https://blog.google/...

• @madebygoogle @madebygoogle on x

  Let's start outside and work our way in. #Pixel6 Pro will come in three color combos. #Pixel6 has three color combos too. Pro tip (ha!) - the Pixel phones with more space above the camera bar = #Pixel6 Pro (2/13) https://twitter.com/...

• @maxwinebach Max Weinbach on x

  Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro will be the most impressive phones of the year and I don't think it's a competition. iPhone 12S better watch out.

• @androidpolice Android Police on x

  Google is aiming for iPhone-like video quality with the Pixel 6's camera https://www.androidpolice.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @chunkynerd Harish Jonnalagadda on x

  Pixel 6 and 6 Pro look very intriguing, particularly that Tensor platform. Google finally seems to be fixing long-standing issues like sub-standard video recording. I just want these to launch in India 😫 https://www.theverge.com/...

• @rjeytech Rjey on x

  If a life long iPhone User (not trapped within the Apple Ecosystem) switched to the Pixel 6 they would probably never switch back. Fact or 🧢?

• @iphonedo @iphonedo on x

  “just no telephoto” - This is the way! https://twitter.com/...

• @iupdate Sam Kohl on x

  I appreciate Google trying to do something different with the new Pixel but this is hella ugly https://twitter.com/...

• @lisaeadicicco Lisa Eadicicco on x

  The Pixel 6 feels much truer to Google's original vision for the Pixel: a high-end phone truly meant to challenge the iPhone and Samsung. Past couple of years have felt more budget-oriented and focused on the 3a/4a line.

• @evleaks Evan on x

  Memo to OEMs: this is how you kill leaks. https://twitter.com/...

• @joemaring1 Joe Maring on x

  As someone that'll probably use an iPhone 13 Pro as my daily driver for the coming year, Pixel 6 looks hoootttt 🥵 https://screenrant.com/...

• @r3dash Ershad Kaleebullah on x

  4x optical zoom. Okay, looks like we might have the end game camera setup here if all of Google's computational photography chops are extended across each sensor. https://twitter.com/...

• @reneritchie Rene Ritchie on x

  I'll almost certainly get this as soon as it launches. My biggest wish for the Pixel remains that Google will pick a stable platform for the phone and then iterate on it for a good long while Every generation still feels like a repudiation of the previous one. Go long term! https…

• @lukemiani Luke Miani on x

  Honestly the camera bar looks pretty good and is a nice change from the usual clusters, I'm also very interested to see the new Tensor chip and how it stacks up vs Qualcomm and esp. Apple https://twitter.com/...

• @jon_prosser Jon Prosser on x

  Google officially confirms my design leak from three months ago, along with naming of devices: Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro 🎉 https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @zacbowden Zac Bowden on x

  Gotta admire Google for doing a full product reveal via a series of Tweets. I think this works rather effectively. Certainly has me excited! https://twitter.com/...

• @jasonhowell Jason Howell on x

  Hominahominahomina I can't wait. https://twitter.com/...

• @teja2495 @teja2495 on x

  Google is finally taking Pixel phones seriously. Google's Tensor chip is capable of running Google's most power AI & ML models directly on the device. Pixel 6 pro is packed with ultra-high end specs. Google is finally doing it. I'm crying out of joy. 😭 https://twitter.com/...

• @harrymccracken Harry McCracken on x

  Google is definitely not pulling back on its in-house smartphone ambitions. https://www.cnbc.com/...

• @patrickmoorhead Patrick Moorhead on x

  Not a surprise. Google Pixel has between .1% and 1% smartphone unit market share. “Abandoning” Qualcomm just may not leave that big a dent. 🤠 Guessing Exynos-based. $QCOM #Pixel6 #Pixel6Pro https://twitter.com/...

• @benedictevans Benedict Evans on x

  Google following Apple in designing its own smartphone chips. Remains to be seen what that really means here. But, Pixel still has minimal distribution and share - Google hasn't decided whether it really wants to compete with its OEMs https://twitter.com/...

• @jake_k Jake Kastrenakes on x

  glad to see google focusing on the pixel cameras again. still a big question whether shifting to a custom SoC has other tradeoffs though https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @austinnotduncan Austin Evans on x

  Apple: Leak one potential iPhone case model before release and we sue you into oblivion. Google: Hey we've got a phone coming out in a few months why don't we tweet literally everything about it? https://twitter.com/...

• @madebygoogle @madebygoogle on x

  Alright, let's talk UI. Remember Material You from I/O? (friendly reminder if you don't have it bookmarked like us: https://www.youtube.com/...) Take a quick watch. We'll give you a minute. (8/13)

• @madebygoogle @madebygoogle on x

  We wish we could show you some 📷 examples on #Pixel6, but that will need to wait. That said if you want to see what #TeamPixel can already do with a Pixel camera, check out our IG: https://www.instagram.com/... (shameless plug, sorry) (7/13)

• @madebygoogle @madebygoogle on x

  Hey, we're just going to call it #Pixel6 for the rest of this 🧵, but we mean both #Pixel6 and #Pixel6 Pro. Cool? Cool. (4/13)

• @mehedih_ Mehedi on x

  this hardware design is so nice, sad that it runs android https://twitter.com/...

• @ow @ow on x

  Good to see Google getting serious about phones with the Pixel 6, even building its own chip this time around. Not so good is Google changing strategy every other year. https://www.theverge.com/...

• @backlon Dieter Bohn on x

  Google is announcing (previewing? teasing?) the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro today. I had a chance to look at them in person last week and hear about the new custom SoC inside them, called Tensor. Details: https://www.theverge.com/...