A new evidence confirmed that Pixel 6 may feature Google's own "Whitechapel" chipset

Android may prove the rumors and expectations that Pixel 6 will sport the "Whitechapel" Google-made chip.

File photo: Google Pixel 5

Whitechapel chip could probably use 5nm technology

Someone has found a URL that confirms allegations that Google is designing a special processor that will be equipped in the Pixel 6.

The screenshot published by the source shows that the "Whitechapel" text is seen in the URL mentioned by one of the Google engineers. Apparently, there was a code change submitted to the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP).

There were claims that the P21 mentioned by the engineer in the line "You don’t need coredomain to use binder_use. This one lives fine on P21" could be in reference to Pixel 6. P21 may not be the Pixel 5a as it is expected to pack the Snapdragon 765G, which powered the Pixel 4a 5G last year.

In the URL, Whitechapel pertains to Google’s own chip and "GS101" probably stands for Google Silicon. There was a report last month the SoC is under development by the search giant in conjunction with Samsung. SLSI is the maker of Exynos chips so there are assumptions that Whitechapel will have similar features with Samsung Exynos.

Meanwhile, there's also a probability that this will be an upgraded version of some Exynos chip. Aside from that, there was a tip that the South Korean giant is making a processor for Xiaomi.

Currently, there is guesswork that the Whitechapel chip will be using the 5-nanometer technology and will have eight processor cores in total. These processors are composed of two Cortex-A78, a couple of Cortex-A76 cores, and a quartet of Cortex-A55 cores.

However, the graphics accelerator will be ARM Mali. Allegedly, the performance of this chip could be similar to the Snapdragon 7-series chips by Qualcomm.

Based on recent reports, the search giant is planning to include ultra-wideband support in its upcoming devices. The said feature is likely to debut on the Google Pixel 6 series. But this is not groundbreaking since Samsung, Apple and various companies are already using it to pinpoint the location of devices.

It seems that support for ultra-wideband communication will soon appear in most flagship smartphones. The feature is reportedly be equipped with an upcoming Google device codenamed Raven.

Note that it is not yet definite how Google will use ultra-wideband in smartphones. Most likely, the search giant will launch a tracker for finding things like other brands did.

Sources: GizChina, GizmoChina