GPU maker Imagination may have accidentally confirmed its Google Tensor G5 role

Just as Google has done for the past few generations, this year’s upcoming Pixel 10 smartphones should be equipped with the company’s latest custom chip: the Tensor G5. This one has been looking like it could easily be Google’s most exciting smartphone processor to date, moving from Samsung to TSMC for fabrication. We’ve already been able to bring you some exclusive reports on what to expect from this hardware, and today we’ve got what could be a bit of corroboration to share.

Last fall, we broke news that Google was planning to abandon the Arm Mali-G715 GPU it employed in both the Tensor G3 and G4 — and, in fact, would give up on Mali GPUs altogether. Instead, we identified the Imagination Technologies DXT-48-1536 as the G5’s likely replacement, capable of modern feats like ray tracing.