According to Google, the secondary chip is designed to compile HDR+ images 5 times faster than an application processor — with 1/10th the power consumption. The Pixel Visual Core also handles complex ...

Google’s Pixel Visual Core, the hidden image-processing chip inside the Pixel 2 family of phones, is getting activated via a software update today. The Visual Core’s main purpose is to bring the HDR+ ...

We've known since the Google Pixel 2 smartphone launched that it had a dedicated imaging chip lurking inside that allows the camera to take HDR+ quality pictures when using the main photo app. Since ...

Google’s very first in-house chipset, Pixel Visual Core, is finally enabled with the February 2018 Android security patch. Pixel Visual Core is designed to compile HDR+ images five times faster than ...

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When Google launched its Pixel 2 flagship smartphone last year, it included something of a surprise: A co-processor called Pixel Visual Core, the company’s first homegrown, consumer-facing piece of ...

The Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL include Pixel Visual Core, Google's first custom imaging chip that allows for HDR+ quality pictures in third-party apps like Instagram and Snapchat. But Pixel 2 users ...

One thing that Google left unannounced during its Pixel 2 launch event on October 4th is being revealed today: it’s called the Pixel Visual Core, and it is Google’s first custom system-on-a-chip (SOC) ...

The Pixel 2 has started rolling out, and it's only a matter of time before it gets torn down. Apparently, that time came almost immediately, as iFixit already got its hands on the Pixel 2 XL and ...

Google’s newest flagship smartphone, the Pixel 2, is nearly out. The company has been talking a big game about the 2’s camera and calling it, definitively, “the best smartphone camera.” But Google has ...

A little over a month after publishing the first Android 8.1 Developer Preview, Google is back at it with Developer Preview 2 (DP2). If you want to be at the forefront of Android Oreo releases, you ...

Snap a photo using a Google Pixel 2 or Pixel 2 XL with the default camera app and Google’s HDR+ technology helps you capture images with high dynamic range colors so that you don’t just get better ...