A Google System on a Chip?

This week Google hired Manu Gulati, who designed Apple's custom mobile phone processor (SOC).

Why? People suspect it has to do with Google's new phone, Pixel. The phone, which competes with a couple of others at the top of the commercial cell phone market, has been reviewed positively, and has sold well over a million items, but analysts think Google thinks they need to do more: namely, they need to develop their own SOC, just like Apple's popular phones have, and just like Samsung, Huawei, and LG later did.