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If you look at the Android landscape at the moment in terms of SoCs, you have a number of makers. You have Qualcomm, you have MediaTek, you have Rockchip, you have the Huawei Kirin, and Samsung’s Exynos. Basically there are many to choose from, but it seems that Google could be interested in creating their own.
In a report from The Information (paywall; via Phandroid), it suggests that Google has been sitting down with various OEMs and have been discussing the possibility of co-developing their own processors. They have apparently shown off several designs that they are interested in, but at this stage it sounds like they are only in talks with no concrete plans to manufacture yet.
Given that this is a rumor it’s best taken with a grain of salt for now, but at the same time Google trying to create their own chipset isn’t that much of a stretch. After all Apple has had great success using their own chipsets, not to mention Google already has Nexus devices which already allows them to control the software and some of the hardware. By creating their own chipsets, it would allow them to unify Android hardware even further, and in turn the platform.
We’re not sure who will be building these chipsets but no doubt this would be an interesting direction for them to head towards, but what say you? How does an idea of a Google-made SoC sound to you?