Google Will Partner With TSMC For Its Upcoming Tensor G5 That Will Power The Pixel 10 Range, Trade Database Shows Sufficient Evidence Of This Alliance

The Tensor G5 has been reported numerous times to be Google’s first proper in-house chipset that will be mass produced by TSMC and is slated to arrive in 2025 for the Pixel 10 series. On those occasions, there was insufficient proof that the advertising behemoth and the Goliath of the semiconductor industry would join hands, but according to the latest update, there is sufficient proof that Samsung will not be responsible for fabricating the Tensor G5.

A publicly available trade database provides evidence that TSMC will handle Google’s Tensor G5 mass production

The image below proves that Google has allied with TSMC, with Android Authority spotting this information through a publicly available database. However, for those who cannot understand the contents of the image, let us explain. Whatever company is involved in bringing goods in or transporting goods out of the country must declare the contents and value of those goods. Some regions share these details with third parties, and that information ends up listed on various databases.

This likely allowed the publication to obtain the information, which is displayed in the image below and shows a shipping manifest of Google’s Tensor G5 sample. However, nowhere in the results is the term ’Tensor G5’ mentioned or anything remotely similar, so how will we know exactly if it refers to Google’s next smartphone chipset? The term LGA present in the ‘Description Of Goods’ table is the shortened codename of the G5, which is ‘Laguna Beach.’

Google might be trying to cover its tracks to prevent information like this from being covered in these reports by using such abbreviations, but the company was not so fortunate on this occasion. The chip revision is ‘A0,’ meaning that it is the earliest available version of the silicon, and it is most probably in a broken state. Additionally, ‘NPI-OPEN’ is further evidence that it is a very early sample of the Tensor G5, and according to ‘SLT,’ which is a system-level test, it indicates that the SoC has been verified in some manner.

The image also shows that there is 16GB of RAM, meaning that Google aims to incorporate tons of memory into the Pixel 10. According to a previous leak, the Pixel 9 Pro is said to ship with 16GB RAM, so it makes complete sense that the Pixel 10 Pro would get this treatment too. With the exporter’s name written as Google in Taiwan, we have also learned that the importer is a company called Tessolve Semiconductor, which is located in India.

Tessolve specializes in verifying and testing semiconductors, and Google might have sent those samples to this company instead of Samsung. Being sent to India for verification could be done for cost-saving purposes, as it would likely be more expensive for Google to test these samples at a local facility. With all that out of the way, there are still several months remaining for the Tensor G5’s inception, but the fact that this evidence has been available reveals that the technology giant is hard at work regarding its development.