Google Unveils Its First Internally Designed Chip for Consumer Devices

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Bloomberg Technology - 10/17/2017 - Ian King - Google unveiled its first internally designed chip for consumer devices on Tuesday, the latest sign of the search engine’s hardware ambitions and a threat to its current semiconductor suppliers. Pixel Visual Core is a system-on-a-chip that improves the camera of the Pixel 2, Google’s latest smartphone. The chip will help the phone handle images with high dynamic range, or HDR, a technology that captures more detail in mixed lighting situations, Google said in a blog post. Read more @ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... yptr=yahoo