Google plus was considering acquiring Nuvia, the startup founded by former Apple and Google plus employees that focused on developing processors.
early 2021, Qualcomm acquired the Nuvia group, consisting of, among other things, two former chip designers from Apple and other former Google plus employees. The California company bought the started for $1.4 billion to expand the company’s microprocessor development business.
But the story could be very different. According to a report by the knowledge, Google plus was about to acquire Nuvia with the goal of strengthening his department, focused on the development of Tensor, the processor that breathes life into Google plus’s Pixel series devices.
Intel, Qualcomm, Microsoft and Google plus have bid to acquire Nuvia
The report says so four of the world’s largest tech giants Among their plans was the acquisition of Nuvia. Sources close to the company say that Microsoft, Intel and Google plus, as well as Qualcomm, have considered acquiring the company before January 2021.
Because of the The first Google plus Pixel processor with Tensor With the Pixel 6 launching in late 2021, it’s clear that Google plus was looking for an opportunity Creation of a department that focuses on the development of microprocessorsand the acquisition of Nuvia may have given his plans a significant boost.
In this sense it should be mentioned Two of Nuvia’s co-founders previously worked for Google plus in the past. One of them was actually involved as an architectural lead in the development of an unspecified project that later turned out to be the Tensor processor that brought the Pixel 6 to life.
At the end, Nuvia was acquired by Qualcomm in January 2021 and in the same year it introduced its first únidad central de procesamiento based on Nuvia technology, called Qualcomm Orion. This processor is expected to hit PCs and desktops first before making the leap to other platforms such as Android teléfonos inteligentes and augmented reality devices.