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Google Is Making Its Own Smartphone Chips. What It Means for Qualcomm Stock.
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The Alphabet (GOOGL) subsidiary describes Tensor as a system on a chip that will bring its much touted artificial-intelligence and machine-learning technology onto its Pixel 6 phones.</p>\n<p>The name comes from the custom Tensor Processing Units that Google uses in its data centers.</p>\n<p>Investors seem clear on what this means.Qualcomm(QCOM), which designed the chips for Google’s prior generation of Pixel phones, would lose a piece of business. It is worth noting, though, that Google’s phones have never been as popular in the U.S. as those from Samsung, or the iPhone. Google has typically captured only a tiny single-digit percentage of the global smartphone market.</p>\n<p>Qualcomm shares dipped 0.9% Monday. They were down 0.6% to $147.95 on Tuesday.</p>\n<p>Google’s decision to move to its custom-designed chips outstrips the importance of comparisons to the iPhone, or how well the next Pixel phones might sell. 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The Alphabet (GOOGL) subsidiary describes Tensor as a system on a chip that will bring its much touted artificial-intelligence and machine-learning technology onto its Pixel 6 phones.\nThe name comes from the custom Tensor Processing Units that Google uses in its data centers.\nInvestors seem clear on what this means.Qualcomm(QCOM), which designed the chips for Google’s prior generation of Pixel phones, would lose a piece of business. It is worth noting, though, that Google’s phones have never been as popular in the U.S. as those from Samsung, or the iPhone. Google has typically captured only a tiny single-digit percentage of the global smartphone market.\nQualcomm shares dipped 0.9% Monday. They were down 0.6% to $147.95 on Tuesday.\nGoogle’s decision to move to its custom-designed chips outstrips the importance of comparisons to the iPhone, or how well the next Pixel phones might sell. It is the latest example of Big Tech demonstrating how its power, resources, and innovation can exceed that of companies that make semiconductors, and nothing else.\nCustom chips for data centers are nothing new. Alphabet, as noted above, has its own data-center chips, as does Amazon.com(AMZN).Microsoft(MSFT), too,reportedly has an effort under way. Even Facebook(FB) has worked on chip designs before.\nDeveloping custom chips is no easy task. Apple, for example, has put together an in-house unit with roughly the same manpower and operating financial infrastructure as Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).Costs are huge, with the price of a design using the most advanced manufacturing process soaring above $500 million. Yet, as Google has demonstrated Monday, more companies with big budgets can do it.\nQualcomm appears to have figured out that making smartphone processors may not be its most lucrative business forever, given Big Tech’s moves. Handsets are still Qualcomm’s largest segment, accounting for nearly half of the company’s fiscal third-quarter revenue of $8 billion. 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