Google tanker processors used in its pixel phones have long been manufactured by Samsung. However, in the Pixel 10 series, the company has been widely indicated to convert the company from Samsung to TSMC for the G5 processor.
We expect this change to translate into pixel phones that can last longer and run the cooler. But will this change really solve Google’s processor problems? We asked this question last week, and here you told us.
More than 8,100 votes were cast in our website pool, and more than two -thirds of respondents found that converting Samsung from TSMC to solve Google’s processor’s problems.
Website User Clubpingian Master 2005 was temporarily hoping for this change:
I like my Pixel 7 Pro, the first device I owned for 2 years+ without a big slow, and I am on Android 16 beta, behind 2 generations and is still great to be released. My only complaint is sometimes more heat and fine battery life (battery age is 2 years). I was waiting until Google turned to the TSMC before buying the second pixel, and if the initial reviews were recovered, I would buy Pixel 10 Pro.
Consumer Craigdmakoli found that Google should have done this move long ago:
I am tanker with Google, but not doing with TSMC has been a big mistake. Hopefully it will improve. Samsung’s latest acne chips have been horrible, and historically the same thing is based on tensor. I am glad they jumped the ship, but I wish they had done it soon.
Meanwhile, only 33 % of the survey readers found that converting to TSMC would not solve Google’s smartphone processor problems.
Readers Jonathan.Fegiro.
Even with the help of TSMC, the performance will still be behind the latest Snapdragon chips. Do I care? No. Is Most Pixel User Base Care? No. Do most phone users care? No… at the end of the day, Pixel phones have performed, and they will continue to perform, which is fine for their level. TMSC will give us more good things like thermal management, battery life and performance, which is all winning in my book. But in any of these areas, Google was not terrifying or poor.
Reader Mahir Shetty also noted correctly that Google’s design selection affects its tension chips. See an excerpt of his comments below:
Although it is appropriate to blame battery life issues on the thermal, throthing of the tensile, throttleing, and thus Samsung, it is not the same for performance limits, which is mainly due to Google deliberately choosing low -clock speed and low -cost costs on all cores. Last year’s Ecinos 2400, though, was particularly faster than G4, although behind 8 General 3, so yes, Google has a lot to do with deliberately conservative for many reasons for performance problems with the latter.
Interestingly, we have also seen many readers’ comments that say they do not have performance or heating issues with their pixel phones. For one, the user Scott Jestro felt that the switch to the TSMC is “solved in search of a problem”, adding that he was very happy with the Pixel 9 Pro performance and battery life.
In any case, it seems that the surveyed readers are expecting big things from Pixel 10 and its TSMC tanker G5 processor. I am not expecting any major promotion in personally high performance, but my fingers were crossed to improve less heating, longer battery life, and better performance.