The Google logo is seen on a smartphone in front of a displayed HTC logo in this illustration taken September 21, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Google officially closed its US$1.1bil (RM4.28bil) deal with HTC Corp, adding more than 2,000 smartphone specialists in Taiwan to help the search giant chase Apple Inc in the cutthroat premium handset market.
The deal will help Google design more of its own consumer hardware and could set it up to wade deeper into special-purpose chips – like Apple. Google’s most recent Pixel model came with a new image processor to improve the device’s camera. More of this “custom silicon” will come in the future, Google’s hardware chief Rick Osterloh said in an interview.
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