https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/04/hands-on-with-googles-pixel-2-a-shift-away-from-the-war-of-hardware-specs/

Google sold the idea of paradigm shifts hard on-stage at today’s big event in San Francisco — that, after all, is kind of the company’s M.O. This time out, CEO Sundar Pichai hit the stage to discuss a coming transition in hardware, away from the specs race, to something less immediately apparently, but no less important: machine learning and AI.

The Pixel 2 is a pretty solid distillation of many of these idea. After all, the product doesn’t exactly represent leaps and bounds when it comes to upgraded innards. The processor has been bumped up to a Snapdragon 835 — the same one that’s powered practically every flagship over the past year (rumor has it that the new Qualcomm chip just didn’t make it out in time).