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by smarx007 1700 days ago
Will app developers get access to the Tensor chip?

Will all the features of the phone and the Titan M2 chip still work with another Android build like grapheneOS or LineageOS?

I don't think those were covered in the video.

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> Will app developers get access to the Tensor chip?

I think this is another classic bit of Google branding. Tensor is their custom SoC with CPU, GPU and an ML co-processor (think this was codenamed Whitechapel). Not the ML processor itself. Whereas Google's Tensor Processing Unit is a large scale ML accelerator. Why they've decided to use the same name for two totally different chips with different functions is anyone's guess.