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Google: Tensor is made to support useful AI features, not win benchmark battles

October 28, 2022

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There is a tendency among phone enthusiasts and yes, even us in the media, to make too big a deal about benchmark scores as though they were points on a scoreboard indicating a winner and a loser. As a result, those using the Pixel 6 or Pixel 7 series phones are made to feel that the chipset inside their handsets, the Google Tensor and Tensor 2 respectively, are not good because they are outscored by the latest Snapdragon or A-series chip.

As noted by 9to5Google, the latest episode of the Made by Google podcast featured Monika Gupta, Google’s senior director of product management for Google Silicon. According to Gupta, his team meets with Google’s AI researchers to “know exactly where machine learning models are trending in five years.”

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