Rumor: Google postpones release of self-designed soc for a year

Google is said to have postponed the release of its self-designed SoC for a year. The search giant wants to make itself less dependent on partner Samsung with its own social media, but that will probably not happen until 2025.

The self-designed SoC should now be released as Tensor G5 in 2025, reports Android Authority. As Tensor G4, Google would now use a slightly modified version of this year’s Tensor G3, the site has learned. This can also be deduced from the code names; the G3 is called Zuma and the G4 ZumaPro. That has happened before, because the Tensor G2 is also a slightly modified version of the first Google Tensor SoC.

Google wants to reduce its dependence on Samsung to have more control over the social media. Now the search giant is working with modified versions of Samsung’s own Exynos Socs as the basis for Tensor Socs. In recent years, Google has brought in more people and expertise to design SoCs almost entirely themselves. Production would take place at TSMC. This year’s Tensor G3 is said to be a nine-core design: an Arm Cortex