The practice of designing your own processor is not new, or even all that unusual: Apple has been designing its own mobile chips since the days of the iPhone 4, and Samsung uses lots of its own processors in the phones and tablets it sells overseas. That Google is now designing its own chips instead of sourcing them from longtime partner Qualcomm is a clear sign that the company is getting serious about the future of its smartphone business.

Source: Washington Post August 02, 2021 16:07 UTC