Google’s rumoured custom silicon ‘Whitechapel’ has surfaced again online. A new tidbit of information points to the chip and an upcoming Google device, although it doesn’t reveal much else.
XDA Developers spotted the detail in a comment posted to an Android Open Source Project (AOSP) commit, a source code change pushed to the AOSP repository. In short, the comment specifically mentions a ‘P21’ device and includes a URL which includes ‘Whitechapel’ and ‘GS101,’ a model number previously tied to Whitechapel. Google has since hidden both the commit and comment.
While it remains unclear what P21 is my money is on the 2021 Pixel the comment doesn’t offer much more information about Whitechapel. It does, however, add another tidbit of support to the Whitechapel rumours.
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XDA Developers shows new evidence regarding Google’s custom chip codenamed “Whitechapel”. This was spotted in new strings of code submitted by Google engineers on the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP). It showed the codename “Whitechapel” for an item named “P21”.
According to XDA’s report, “P21” could be referring to the upcoming Pixel 6, and “Whitechapel” is, of course, the custom Google chip that we have been hearing about. We also have the cheaper Pixel 5a coming up soon, but that is rumored to feature the Snapdragon 765G instead.
Android 12 will automatically hibernate unused apps to free up storage space.
The app hibernation feature will remove temporary files and stop notifications from apps that haven’t been used for months.
The first traces of a new app hibernation feature on Android 12 appeared back in January and were spotted as part of the code changes submitted to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Now, folks over at
XDA Developers have managed to make the feature work on a leaked Android 12 build they recently obtained.
The publication confirms that the code for app hibernation is present in the build which is apparently newer than Developer Preview 2.
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