Tom's Hardware has noticed that the new Pixel 10 smartphones arrive with the Tensor G5, the first Google-designed processor fabbed on TSMC’s advanced N3P process node.

The Pixel 10 and 10 Pro look almost identical to last year’s Pixel 9 handsets, aside from new finishes in Moonstone, Obsidian, Porcelain and Jade. What has changed is the silicon. Google claims the G5 offers 34 per cent more CPU performance and a 60 per cent jump in AI workloads compared with the Tensor G4.

Those figures come from Google itself, without much detail on how they were measured, but moving away from Samsung’s process tech to TSMC’s N3P should naturally bring better power efficiency and performance regardless of the marketing gloss.

N3P is an optical shrink of TSMC’s N3E platform, offering around five per cent more speed at the same power or a five to ten per cent reduction in energy use at the same clocks. That gives chip designers more headroom either for higher performance or for extended battery life. Google seems to be aiming for both, with bigger batteries, faster wired charging and new magnetic wireless charging in the Pixel 10 series.

The G5 is already in mass production, meaning Google has secured cutting-edge capacity at TSMC for its latest flagship phones.