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 ...

While the Pixel 2 family still features the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoC at its core, Google’s new Pixel Visual Core makes up the bulk of the processing on the camera side of things; something ...

Following the release of the second developer preview of Android 8.1 Oreo, owners of the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL can finally enable the Pixel Visual Core, a custom system-on-chip Google developed ...

Google has switched on the Visual Core chipset in its Pixel 2 handsets, and it makes your Instagram and Facebook photos look so much better ...

Google is about to unlock the custom Intel "Visual Core" co-processor which is under the bonnet of its Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. At the moment the co-processor is doing nine shades of bugger all but ...

However, Google confirmed it does not use the Pixel Visual Core in a statement to Android Authority. Since the core Pixel camera app already has HDR+ built in, enabling the chipset would be redundant.

Visual Core was a strange little surprise from Google when it revealed it back in October. The system company waited three weeks until after the Pixel 2’s announcement to talk up the system-on-a ...

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 ...

Below is an image of the Pixel Visual Core with marked identifiers: The chip also means that third-party applications will soon be able to use the Pixel 2’s superb HDR+ functionality to capture ...