Qualcomm acquired Nuvia, a startup led by former Google and Apple employees, last year. Nuvia developed energy-efficient processors and used Arm technologies in its development. Qualcomm hoped to use these developments to better compete with Apple, but faced a lawsuit from Arm.
New data from The Information indicates that other major technology companies have also been interested in buying Nuvia. One of them was Google. Google probably wanted to improve on its own Tensor chips. Using Tensor processors for Pixel smartphones gives the company some control over the SoC. However, having its own chipset development team with ready-to-use modified Arm cores could reduce Google’s dependence on Samsung and its Exynos chips in the future. Two of Nuvia’s co-founders also previously worked at Google, with one serving as “lead SoC architect.”
Nuvia’s achievements can already be seen in the Qualcomm Oryon – a CPU for Windows PCs, smartphones and other productive devices. The company said the custom CPU was started by Nuvia engineers while still working at the startup, and after the purchase, the modified CPU was completed by Qualcomm engineers. This does not mean that two different teams worked on the kernel. Simply, after the purchase, Nuvia engineers automatically became Qualcomm engineers.
If Google were able to acquire Nuvia with its engineering team and nearly finished modified CPU, it could use its Tensor processors for more performance devices, such as something like the canceled Pixelbook laptop.
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Source: xda-developers
