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- A Google executive has claimed that the Pixel 9’s Tensor G4 chip isn’t designed for benchmarks and speed.
- Instead, the new smartphone processor is apparently designed for Google’s own use cases.
- This echoes previous comments from the company about the chip family’s performance.
Google’s Pixel phones have been powered by semi-custom Tensor processors since 2021, but these chips have never really been a major threat to rival flagship processors in most benchmarks. Now, a Google executive has reportedly claimed that the Tensor G4 in the Pixel 9 series isn’t designed for benchmarks.
“When we are designing the chip, we’re not designing it for speeds and feats. We’re not designing it to beat some specific benchmark that’s out there. We’re designing it to meet our use cases,” Google Pixel product manager Soniya Jobanputra told the Financial Express.