# Google ships the first Pixel phones

Date: 2016

## The fact

On 4 October 2016 Google shipped Pixel phones, a completed first-party Android hardware instrument under Pichai.

## Context

Neighbouring TPU is the same year’s silicon. Neighbouring Android remit is 2013. He did not write an FCC ID as a regulator.

TPU May 2016 is neighbouring silicon. Android 2013 is neighbouring OS. Fitbit 2021 is later device.

[Sundar Pichai](/people/sundar-pichai) has been CEO of Google since 10 August 2015 and of Alphabet since 3 December 2019. He does not write a Sherman Act complaint, a Commission DMA article, a CAC circular, or a Pentagon contract clause by himself as a civil servant. A keynote is not a completed breakup. A liability opinion is not a Chrome sale. A layoff round is not a unique unemployment coefficient as his personal tally. TPU trains; TSMC and partners fabricate; App Review analogues on Play enforce. Keep those dates separate. An AI Principle PDF is not a completed weapons ban. A settlement is not a verdict. [Larry Page](/people/larry-page) is a different person. Sergey Brin is a different person.

## Evidence and sources

Google carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [industrial-policy activism](/drivers/industrial-policy-activism): a completed first-party phone is a hardware-and-jobs instrument.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 4 October 2016 Pixel launch, independently reported.

Not established: that Samsung exited, or a unique later employment coefficient from HTC assembly.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Hardware teams designed. Contract manufacturers built. Carriers sold.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Google ships the first Pixel phones, not a later speech about Google ships the first Pixel phones.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Google ships the first Pixel phones on 2016-10-04 is not a licence to treat every later Google communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Google ships the first Pixel phones into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He launched as CEO. Hardware teams designed. Contract manufacturers built. Carriers sold. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Sundar Pichai: https://factrail.ai/people/sundar-pichai

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism
- Labour-Market Tightness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/labour-market-tightness

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-pixel-idUSKCN1240K4
- https://blog.google/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/goog-pixel-2016