Android Police

Android 15 QPR2 brings the Pixel 9's new Linux kernel to all Tensor-powered phones and tablets

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BGR

Android's New AutoFDO Feature Is Doing More Than Just Speeding Up Your Phone

Google is rolling out an optimized kernel to devices with Android 15 and Android 16, and it was built using a technique called Automatic Feedback-Directed Optimization (AutoFDO). Google engineers ...
Android

Google is Quietly Making Your Android Phone Faster Via Kernel Optimization

Google is implementing AutoFDO (Automatic Feedback-Directed Optimization) in the Android kernel to improve performance and battery life. Now, the system reorganizes the core code of the OS to ...
Android Authority

Older Pixel phones are getting a major under-the-hood upgrade

Older Pixel phones are receiving a significant kernel upgrade with the March 2025 update, bringing them to Linux 6.1. This update unifies the kernel versions across Tensor-powered Pixels, such as the ...
Neowin

Google finally using a five-year old performance boost feature to make phones faster

New Android phones and other such devices are going to get a significant performance boost soon. Google has explained how that's happening. Google’s Android LLVM toolchain team has announced the ...