This year's iPhone Pro Max will be powered by the 4nm A16 processor and in 2023 Apple's first 3nm A-Chip from TSMC will be introduced. With the chip shortage still in play, Google didn't want to fall too far behind Apple's iPhone and so they've made a deal with Samsung for their next-gen 3nm processor for their Pixel 8 smartphone.

According to BusinessKorea, "Google has reportedly decided to produce the mobile application processors (APs) for its next-generation smartphone Pixel 8 at Samsung Electronics' 3-nm foundry lines. The U.S. tech giant is developing the chip in cooperation with the Korean smartphone giant.

Google is developing the third-generation Tensor with Samsung Electronics' System LSI Division. The mobile AP will be used for the Pixel 8 smartphone, scheduled to come out in the second half of next year.

The Tensor is a mobile chip developed by Google last year and was first applied to the Google smartphone Pixel 6 in 2021. Google had used Qualcomm’s mobile chips until 2020 but succeeded in developing the Tensor with support from Samsung Electronics.

The Tensor is expected to be produced only for smartphones for the time being. However, Google has a plan to expand the application of its own chip to tablets, laptops and servers through its own chip diffusion strategy. This is because an improvement in semiconductor performance contributes to boosting core services and product performances.

Google’s smartphone market share stood at a mere 3 percent as of the end of last year. In the saturated smartphone market, Google smartphones have a meager presence."