{"id":125755,"date":"2021-08-02T15:23:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T22:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/googles-own-mobile-chip-is-called-tensor"},"modified":"2021-08-02T15:23:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T22:23:56","slug":"googles-own-mobile-chip-is-called-tensor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/googles-own-mobile-chip-is-called-tensor","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s own mobile chip is called Tensor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d1aDjlGNdiQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rick Osterloh casually dropped his laptop onto the couch and leaned back, satisfied. It\u2019s not a mic, but the effect is about the same. Google\u2019s chief of hardware had just shown me a demo of the company\u2019s latest feature: computational processing for video that will debut on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/google-pixel-6-pixel-6-pro-first-look-tensor-processor-better-cameras-160005582.html\">the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro<\/a>. The feature was only possible with Google\u2019s own mobile processor, which it\u2019s announcing today.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s understandably proud and excited to share the news. The chip is called Tensor, and it\u2019s the first system-on-chip (SoC) designed by Google. The company has \u201cbeen at this about five years,\u201d he said, though CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a statement that Tensor \u201chas been four years in the making and builds off of two decades of Google\u2019s computing experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That software expertise is something Google has come to be known for. It led the way in computational photography <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018-11-14-google-pixel-night-sight-launch-sample-photos-comparison.html\">with its Night Sight mode for low light shots<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018-05-11-google-duplex-ai-tough-questions-answers-now.html\">weirded out<\/a> the world with how successfully its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018-06-27-google-duplex-ai-phone-call.html\">conversational AI Duplex<\/a> was able to mimic human speech \u2014 right down to the \u201cums and ahs.\u201d Tensor both leverages Google\u2019s machine learning prowess and enables the company to bring AI experiences to smartphones that it couldn\u2019t before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Osterloh casually dropped his laptop onto the couch and leaned back, satisfied. It\u2019s not a mic, but the effect is about the same. Google\u2019s chief of hardware had just shown me a demo of the company\u2019s latest feature: computational processing for video that will debut on the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}