The Google Pixel 10 — the supposed successor to this year’s Pixel 9 — isn’t expected to arrive until the second half of 2025, but a new leak has shed some light on the chipset likely to power the smartphone. The company will reportedly power the Pixel 10 and Pixel 11 with Google’s Tensor G5 and Tensor G6 chips, respectively, and both of these processors are expected to offer improved performance over the Tensor G4 that powers the current-gen Pixel 9 series.
Google Pixel 10 will get an improved Tensor G5 chip
Documents from Google’s alleged G-Chips division, reviewed by Android Authority, show that the company plans to use its own chip design for the Tensor G5 (codenamed Laguna) and Tensor G6 (codenamed Malibu) — the company’s latest Tensor G4 chipset and earlier models . from Samsung. According to the report, Google’s upcoming smartphone processors will also be made by TSMC instead of Samsung.
The Tensor G5 will reportedly use TSMC’s 3nm N3E manufacturing process, the same manufacturing process used by Apple for the A18 Pro chip. As a result, the Pixel 10 can offer much better performance than the Pixel 9, which is equipped with a Tensor G4 processor built on Samsung’s 4nm process.
In a separate report citing leaked documents, the publication claims that the Tensor G5 chip in the Pixel 10 will consist of the main Arm Cortex-X4 core, five Cortex-A725 performance cores and two Cortex A520 performance cores. The basic and efficient cores are the same as the Tensor G4 on the Pixel 9 (it has a 1+3+4 core configuration), but it will reportedly have an updated version of the Cortex-A740 performance cores on this chip.
The Google Pixel 11 may also have a 3nm chip manufactured by TSMC
The alleged Tensor G6 chip on the Pixel 11, which is likely to debut in 2026, will reportedly be manufactured using the same 3nm N3E process technology from TSMC. It is said to offer additional performance improvements over the Tensor G5 processor, which is likely to debut in the Pixel 10 series next year.
While the Pixel 9 and Pixel 8 introduced several improvements in performance and thermal management, the switch to Google’s own chip design and TSMC’s 3nm process could lead to even better results on the company’s future Pixel generations. Given Google’s track record of leaks, it’s likely that more information about these processors will hit the web in the coming months.
