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Google is getting more serious about making its own chips
July 08, 2025
Googlehas slowly ramped up its in-house chip-making efforts over the years. Those efforts substantially sped up in recent months, thanks to over a dozen new microchip engineer hires in Bengaluru, India.
According toReuters, Google hired at least 16 engineering veterans and four talent recruiters for its internal “gChips” team. As of this writing, therearefouropenpositionsin Bengaluru. In total, the gChips team could grow to 80 employees by the end of 2019.
Reutersalso reports that the gChips might be testing chip designs before sending off the final versions to manufacturers, according to two industry executives familiar with Google’s plans.
If these chip designs are for processors, Google could soon joinApple,Samsung, andHuaweias companies that use their own processors in their devices. Since Google sourcesAndroidto manufacturers, this also means that Google could integrate hardware and software tighter than before.
In addition to processors, the chip designs could also be for chips with more specific purposes. For example, Google could build a chip for its routers andsmart home devicesthat can analyze voice commands and videos better than before.
That’s not to say that Google’s a stranger to custom chips. The last two generations of Pixel phones feature thePixel Visual Core, which compiles HDR+ images five times faster than an application processor. Google also designed theTitan Msecurity chip for thePixel 3, the Visual Processing Unit inGoogle Clips, andTensor Processing Unitsfound in Google data centers.
Google’s also made advancements in personnel — the company hired several key engineers from Apple andQualcomm, including former Apple micro-architectManu Gulatiin mid-2017.
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