Google Pixel 6 and Whitechapel — why ditching Qualcomm is a big deal

[admin]

Google going its own way with Whitechapel could mean a game changer or it could fail miserably. It’s not easy designing your own system-on-chip.

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[tztex]

They have been talking about the whitechapel for at least two years now. It's another expensive experiment that will go nowhere. Google has no scale to make custom chips worth it. Economics 101 points to two scenarios. 1.They will sell these Pixels at a loss or 2. They price them high. Samsung has no reason to use them, and if they shared them, they lose the competitive edge.