Google Pixel 10 Leak

Google is currently preparing to launch the new top smartphones in the Pixel 9 series, but in the background they are of course already working on the next generation of models. A lot will probably change, because according to a leak, the Pixel 10 will get a new processor manufactured by TSMC called the Google Tensor G5 .

Google is definitely switching to TSMC

Kamila Wojciechowska worked her way through import-export databases for Android Authority and came across very clear indications that Google is actually heralding the departure of long-time CPU manufacturing and development partner Samsung with the Pixel smartphones

of 2025. The databases contain references to a chip that uses the same socket as the Tensor G4 planned for the Google Pixel 9 (Pro/XL), but is manufactured at TSMC. The new system-on-chip is of course still in the development phase, with data from the end of March 2024 showing that the first software version is being used in a sample manufactured by TSMC.

New code name “Laguna (Beach)”

Otherwise, there seems to be further information in the form of the new codename “Laguna”, whereby the new variant of the Tensor G5 for the Pixel 10 manufactured at TSMC thus continues the “beach theme” in Google’s choice of chip codenames: the previous version was codenamed “Redondo”. Laguna Beach and Redondo Beach are both beaches in Google’s US home state of California.

According to the database, the chip is produced using Infopop packaging, which also makes it clear that it is manufactured at TSMC. The world’s largest chip contract manufacturer from Taiwan is the only provider in the world to use this technology. There is also talk of 16 gigabytes of RAM, although this is likely to be package-on-package RAM that is placed directly on the actual SoC and in this case comes from Samsung’s memory division .

The fact that Google is already having the first samples produced and tested, a good year before the first devices with the new Tensor G5 “Laguna Beach” processor from TSMC are commercially available, is not surprising given the switch to a new manufacturing partner. It is also the first time that the company has developed and manufactured a smartphone processor without the support of Samsung, so this also requires extensive testing.

Exact technical data on Google’s first in-house smartphone processor, which is to be manufactured at TSMC, is still pending.