Evidence mounts that 2021 will be the year Google takes on Apple's Bionic processors - Android

Evidence mounts that 2021 will be the year Google takes on Apple's Bionic processors - Android

Whitechapel and GS101 references spotted in an AOSP comment for a 'P21' device

For over a year, it's been rumored that Google was working on a custom smartphone chip with Samsung, and last month news surfaced that it would land in an upcoming Pixel phone, presumed to be the Pixel 6. Another small tidbit has surfaced recently that further corroborates Whitechapel-powered hardware is under development and tied to upcoming Google hardware.

The folks at XDA Developers spotted a comment in an AOSP commit discussion that publicly points to the Whitechapel name as part of a URL in the context of a "P21" device, together with a GS101 label, also previously tied to at least this first Whitechapel chip.

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06/05/2021 03:29 PM