The alliance between Google and Samsung is lower than ever, perhaps about to break. Together, these giants began an era of gold on Android, collaborating in “hardware” and “software” in their own projects. It will end.
Maybe the end of this romance was inevitable. After all, Samsung and Google are not only allied, also direct competitors In the increase in sectors, and there is a point where it makes no sense of “help” your rival.
This week, we are talking about the way Samsung means goodbye to Google, betting on the AI of perplexity to replace Gemini in the next Galaxy S26; But Google was not left with its intention to abandon Samsung.
The next Pixel 10 range will be one of the largest launched by Google in its history; will be your first smartphones that They will use a GG processor that has not been made by Samsung.
The G5 tensioner will be the first Google processor manufactured by TSMC, but that does not mean that Samsung will disappear completely from the pixel, at least not for the moment. And it is Pixel 10 will always have Samsung components.
More specifically, the last filtration of Pixel 10 Pro published this week also revealed that the Pixel 10 They will use the Samsung Exynmos 5400 For everything related to connectivity, including 5G.
It is a family modem, taking into account this Fwhich was created with the Pixel 9 range; Indeed, Pixel 10 will use the same modem, something surprising since rumors have spoken of a Mediatek modem.
For any reason that has not been revealed, Google had no choice that Back to Samsung modems for Pixel 10; This, although his initial intention was to jump to Mediatek modems.
Samsung's exyms modems were precisely one of the most critical parts of the pixel, in particular the old model, Exynos 5300. Some users have complained about High battery connection and consumption losses.
Samsung has tried to solve these problems with Exynos 5400, but still Google tried to jump to Mediatk in the hope of obtaining greater energy efficiency; Some plans that have now been canceled.
The good news is that Exynos 5400 is a good modem This should not give problems in Pixel 10; But it is worth asking why Google could not get rid of Samsung as intention.
Puede que Google haya tomado la decisión de seguir con el Exynos 5400 para no adoptar tantos cambios al mismo tiempo, sumándose al cambio de fabricante con el Tensor G5 y de cambios en el diseño de chip con un proceso ahora de 3 nm.
Por otra parte, otra teoría es que simplemente, a Google le quedan módems Exynos 5400 y quiere aprovecharlos en vez de hacer una gran inversión en comprar otros nuevos. O puede que sea una combinación de varias razones.
