A 10-Minute Phone Call Killed A Pixel 6 Pro: The Aftermath Shows How Badly Google's Custom Chip Overheated

Alphabet Inc.'s GOOG GOOGL Google Tensor chipsets have been criticized for overheating too much. Now, a mere 10-minute phone call has resulted in a user's Pixel 6 Pro overheating, resulting in the phone giving up the ghost.

What Happened: A 10-minute phone call proved too hot for a user's Pixel 6 Pro to handle, with the heatsink ending up burning and killing the phone in the process.

Reddit user /u/zybernau posted a photo of their dead Pixel 6 Pro. The user removed the phone’s back plate, showing the burnt heat sink.

This resulted from a 10-minute phone call – the overheating suggests that the phone could not handle the network request properly or that its software ran into an issue it could not solve before overheating and dying in the process.

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The Pixel 6 Pro is just two years old and powered by Google's first custom-made chipset, Tensor.

Why It Matters: It's not just the two-year-old Tensor chipset or the Pixel 6 Pro that suffers from the overheating problem.

Despite launching two new generations of the Tensor chipset, Google has been unable to keep it from overheating. This issue plagues the Pixel 8, which is powered by the third-generation Tensor chipset.

Benchmarks show that the Pixel 8 Pro has reached temperatures of 115 degrees Fahrenheit, which is nearly as hot as the iPhone 15 Pro, which touched the 118-degree Fahrenheit mark.

To make matters worse, the Tensor G3 chipset’s performance seems to be closer to the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset from Qualcomm Inc. QCOM launched in 2022.

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