With Google already lifting the lid ever so slightly on the upcoming Pixel 7 series, expectations and rumors about the phone’s next-gen silicon are beginning to circulate. The upcoming chip, tentatively dubbed the Google Tensor 2, follows Google’s first foray into the semi-custom silicon space and will power Google’s next-generation handsets.

There are plenty of changes, tweaks, and outright improvements Google could make to its next SoC. Nothing is ever perfect on a first try, after all. So let’s wade through the current rumors and reasonable expectations about what will be coming our way later in 2022.