Google is working on its own chipset to power Pixel phones of the future and it could appear in a handset as early as next year, according to a report from Axios. While the Google Pixel 5 may still use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865 chipset, Google may strike out on its own after that in a bid to better compete with Apple’s iPhone 12.

Google has made “significant progress toward developing” the chipset, per the report, which it’s designing in partnership with Samsung. The chip, codenamed Whitechapel, will allegedly be manufactured with Samsung’s 5nm tech and feature an 8-core ARM processor.

The chipset will also have hardware that’s optimized to work with Google’s machine learning tech as well as Google Assistant. While Google has reportedly already received working versions of the chips, it won’t be ready until 2021 at earliest.
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