Google launched the Pixel 9 collection a few months in the past, and it presents a semi-custom Tensor G4 chipset. All indicators level to the Pixel 10’s Tensor G5 processor being a major improve for the corporate, and we’ve now acquired codenames for this chip and the Tensor G6.

Android Authority contributor Mishaal Rahman (and a Discord member) found the codenames for Google’s Tensor G5 and Tensor G6 processors. The codenames Laguna and Malibu, respectively, have been noticed in newly up to date Android Open Supply Mission (AOSP) code.

There isn’t a lot else to go on, however the Laguna identify has appeared in earlier Tensor G5 leaks. This chip is predicted to be a serious improve for Pixel telephones because it’ll be the primary Tensor processor manufactured by TSMC. All earlier Tensor chips have been manufactured by Samsung Foundry, which is believed to supply an inferior manufacturing course of. This obvious inferiority has manifested itself in throttling and heating points for Samsung-made chips lately, together with Google’s first couple of Tensor processors and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. So switching to TSMC ought to make for Tensor chips with improved efficiency and decreased heating in principle.

This isn’t the primary time we’ve heard concerning the Pixel 11’s anticipated processor, both. Enterprise Korea reported final month that Google was working with TSMC to construct the Tensor G6 on a 2nm course of. Both means, it appears like TSMC-made Google Tensor chips gained’t be a once-off incidence.