A system-on-chip (SoC) from Google and Samsung that made its first appearance in Pixel 6 smartphones in 2021. The Pixel Tensor chips have an AI processor for enhanced camera, audio and speech operations. The Tensor chip superseded the Pixel Neural Core, which debuted in 2019 in the Pixel 4. See
SoC and
Pixel phone.
Not the TPU
Although they are both called Tensor chips, the Pixel Tensor chip is not the same as the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). The Tensor SoC is a smartphone chip whereas the TPU is a custom-built chip used in Google datacenters (see
Tensor Processing Unit). See
Tensor core and
TensorFlow.