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Google plans another campus in Silicon Valley which will include a new center for some of its hardware products, CNBC reported. Google has been buying up land in northern San Jose, California, spending more than $389 million on what preliminary plans show will include a research and development center, according to CNBC. The campus, which it calls Midpoint, will be located between Google’s current Mountain View headquarters and its mixed-use campus in San Jose. Midpoint will have five… Source link

Google is asking the city for feedback on its early plans to transform a Silicon Valley office site with “sustainability” features. City of San Jose filings Google is planning yet another Silicon Valley campus, which will sit adjacent to a new center partly devoted to hardware, according to preliminary plans obtained by CNBC. Beginning in 2018, Google spent more than $389 million on land in north San Jose, Calif., and the company has since filed detailed preliminary proposals showing a sneak… Source link

In addition to confirming the upcoming Pixel 2021 smartphones, a Google employee also addressed the existence of the GS101 Whitechapel chipset. Thanks to a recent code update in the Android Open Source Project (aka AOSP), a Google employee has made it all but certain that this year’s Pixel 6 will ship with custom Google silicon. While this latest update doesn’t provide any new details on how Google’s first smartphone chip will work, it does serve as the… Source link

All eyes are on Google to see if the Pixel 6’s expected new proprietary chipset means more functionality and less cost than with the Pixel 5. Reports surfaced last week that Google will start manufacturing its own silicon for its Pixel phones, but that doesn’t necessarily mean Pixel owners will get a break in their pocketbooks. It’s a bold move for Google, which has up to now relied on Qualcomm for its chipsets. It could affect users in a number of… Source link

When Google launched its first Pixel phone, we all assumed it would be the iPhone’s biggest competitor. It didn’t quite work out that way. The Pixel has yet to break out among Android’s biggest selling phones and launches have been plagued with numerous bugs and issues. That might change with the upcoming Pixel 6. A new report from 9to5Google says that the Pixel 6 will use Google’s first system-on-chip, codenamed “GS101” Whitechapel. The Pixel would then be one of the only… Source link

This year’s Pixel devices will reportedly use custom Google silicon, according to 9to5Google. As per this report, the upcoming Pixel 6 smartphones — codenamed “Raven” and “Oriole” — will employ this custom SoC (system-on-chip). These devices are part of a platform known as “Slider”, which also encompasses future Chromebook devices that will use this SoC. Known internally as the GS101 “Whitechapel” chip, this SoC is seemingly being made in collaboration with Samsung. It is understood… Source link

TipRanks Time to Turn Bullish on These 2 Oil Stocks, Says Raymond James We are entering a new paradigm for the oil and gas industry, one far removed from the Trump Presidency’s pro-drilling policies. The Biden Admin is likely to cut back on oil and gas production in the US, in favor of promoting renewable energy sources and carbon pollution reduction. In the short run, his policies are likely to push oil and gas prices up – and that may turn out to help the hydrocarbon sector, at least at… Source link

After years of mounting worker organizing, Google employees, in addition to those within other Alphabet companies, announced the formation of the Alphabet Workers Union earlier this week. “Our new union,” said Program Manager Nicki Anselmo in a press release, “provides a sustainable structure to ensure that our shared values as Alphabet employees are respected even after the headlines fade.” The Alphabet Workers Union is supported by Communications Workers of America (CWA) and is a… Source link

More than 200 employees at Google parent company Alphabet announced plans to form a union Monday, joining with the Communications Workers of America to organize full-time and contract workers alike. The move comes after public walkouts and controversies over employee dismissals at Google in recent years. … Source link