Google bets on new phone chip to bolster AI technology

Google is making a bigger bet on smartphones by joining rivals Apple and Samsung in designing the device's most critical component in-house: the main processor. The Alphabet company says its upcoming flagship phones, the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, will include new Tensor chips when they go on sale later this year. Google had previously used Qualcomm processors in all of its Pixel phones since the first models launched in 2016. The new chip is designed to bolster artificial-intelligence technology and improve speech recognition and the processing of photos and video. The new component will be Google's first system-on-a-chip -- technology that integrates the device's elements.