According to Google, the secondary chip is designed to compile HDR+ images 5 times faster than an application processor — with 1/10th the power consumption. The Pixel Visual Core also handles complex ...

Pixel Agents adds a pixel office view in VS Code; six character styles show coding, searching, or idle states, useful for monitoring parallel agents ...

We've known since the Google Pixel 2 smartphone launched that it had a dedicated imaging chip lurking inside that allows the camera to take HDR+ quality pictures when using the main photo app. Since ...

When Google launched its Pixel 2 flagship smartphone last year, it included something of a surprise: A co-processor called Pixel Visual Core, the company’s first homegrown, consumer-facing piece of ...

It’s been a long time coming, but it looks like the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL will be the first phones to feature a custom System on a Chip (SoC) solution from Google. While Apple has been creating its ...

Google’s very first in-house chipset, Pixel Visual Core, is finally enabled with the February 2018 Android security patch. Pixel Visual Core is designed to compile HDR+ images five times faster than ...

Google is able to take such fantastic photos on the Pixel 2 because of a fine-tuned mix of physical hardware (camera lens and sensor), software (enabling HDR+), and machine learning. Even in its ...

Visual Core was a strange little surprise from Google when it revealed it back in October. The system company waited three weeks until after the Pixel 2’s announcement to talk up the system-on-a-chip ...

The Pixel 3 lineup of Android flagships will focus on delivering a wide variety of upgrades meant to improve the overall imaging capabilities of the upcoming devices compared to their 2017 ...

The Pixel 2 has started rolling out, and it's only a matter of time before it gets torn down. Apparently, that time came almost immediately, as iFixit already got its hands on the Pixel 2 XL and ...

The Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL have some of the best cameras available on a smartphone. They’re so good that they let a mediocre photographer like me take some pretty stunning shots. Part of that ...

A little over a month after publishing the first Android 8.1 Developer Preview, Google is back at it with Developer Preview 2 (DP2). If you want to be at the forefront of Android Oreo releases, you ...