Google Pixel Visual Core helps Pixel 2 machine learn Pocketnow

Google revealed the Pixel 2's and Pixel 2 XL's HDR and machine learning capabilities for computational computing will be the result of work by the Pixel Visual Core, the company's first-ever own-design co-processor. Together, they can perform more than 3 trillion calculations per second -- allowing for up to five times the processing speed for HDR at 10 percent of the power usage. It's able to glide between domain-specific languages (Halide for images and Google's TensorFlow for machine learning) to make things easier for third-party developers. The Pixel Visual Core will be enabled on Pixel 2 (and, presumably, Pixel 2 XL) devices with the Android 8.1 Oreo update (Maintenance Release 1) and third-party apps will be able to crack at code to harness the power of this new hardware. Rumors of Google developing its own mobile applications processor have been around for years.