Android Authority

Pixel Visual Core: A closer look at Google's hidden chip

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 ...
Wired

Pixel Visual Core Now Adds HDR+ To Instagram, WhatsApp, and Snapchat Images | WIRED

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 ...
HotHardware

Google Activates Pixel Visual Core For Pixel 2 HDR+ Photos In Third-Party Apps

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 ...
Android Authority

Pixel Visual Core enabled for third-party apps in Pixel 2 February update

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 ...
9to5google

Pixel Visual Core is Google’s first custom SOC, will make Pixel 2 photos even better in Android 8.1

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 ...
Android

Pixel Visual Core Is Google's First Custom SoC With 8 Cores

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 ...
The Verge

Google enables Pixel Visual Core for better Instagram, Snapchat, and WhatsApp photos

Google’s Pixel Visual Core, the hidden image-processing chip inside the Pixel 2 family of phones, is getting activated via a software update today. The Visual Core’s main purpose is to bring the HDR+ ...
techtimes

Pixel 2 XL Teardown Reveals Magic Behind Squeezable Sides, Gives Closer Look At The Pixel Visual Core

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 ...
Liliputing

Pixel 2 smartphones have a custom camera chip called Pixel Visual Core

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 ...
The Verge

Google’s Pixel Visual Core doesn’t actually work in the Pixel’s own camera app

Ever since it was revealed as Google’s hidden chip inside the Pixel 2, the Pixel Visual Core has been clad in a little bit of mystery. Google hasn’t helped matters in its communications, and until ...
HotHardware

Google Delivers Android 8.1 Dev Preview 2 Unlocking Custom Pixel Visual Core SoC

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 ...