The Tensor SoC situation sounds like an ongoing hot mess that is really detracting from an otherwise very interesting Smartphone. Too bad that both Google and Qualcomm never seem to have wanted to bury the hatchet. Google's main beef with Qualcomm was (reportedly) that QC wouldn't commit to longer-term firmware support for their SoCs back in 2020/2021, which makes multiple years of OS and security updates difficult at best. And, Google wanted its own TPU and video tech in its smartphones, and apparently Qualcomm said no. Well, things have changed, also in San Diego. For example, Qualcomm now offers an IoT SoC that is a renamed SD 8 Gen2, except it gets 10+ years of support. Other Smartphone makers like Vivo have added their own video processing chips to some of their Snapdragon-based smartphones, so it's now apparently possible to do so. A Pixel 9 with an SD 8 Gen2 (or Gen3), plus Google's own TPU and other custom tech added to the SoC package (not the chip itself!) would have been a much more attractive offering. But, that didn't happen, and the Pixel 9 will have to make do with a slightly improved and renamed G3.