Google has received back from Samsung the first working samples of its proprietary phone processor Whitechapel.

Whitechapel was designed with Samsung to go on its 5nm process.

The chip is said to have an 8-core Arm processor and will be optimised to run Google’s ML technology.

It will also be geared to improving Google Assistant.

Later on, it is thought that Whitechapel may also be used for Chromebooks.

Up to now Google has used Qualcomm Snapdragons for its Pixel phones.