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Re:Three chips in and Google Tensor is on life support by runako on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @11:16PM (#38389207)
> Choosing Qualcomm would have led to a very different phone where the feature differentiation they were trying to deliver with Tensor simply wouldn't have been possible.

Would you mind elaborating on this point?

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Re:Three chips in and Google Tensor is on life support by crest on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @11:50PM (#38389426)
IIRC Qualcomm puts their own Hexagon DSP on the SoC which is where they placed their own low precision matrix multiplication accelerator.
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