A report from Taiwan says Google's Tensor G5 has successfully taped out. The 3 nm chip is slated to use Google's fully in-house design and manufactured by TSMC.
Well, by the time the Pixel 10 comes out, it'll be 2 generations after the iPhone that used a SoC from TSMC's 3nm node (the A17, used in iPhone 15 Pro, launched September 2023). I'd imagine it'll have caught up some, but will still behind while Apple is presumably launching something from TSMC's 2nm or A14 node at the same time.
It’s definitely a moving target and I can see a world where it stays in the same relative position. Moving to a better node is a necessary but not sufficient condition to be competitive.
This is a common, well known, well documented problem. Before Lemmy or was a regular subject on Reddit. Pretty sure every Pixel has had this problem (though I'm not 100% on that)