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GrapheneOS
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We have good news about the Pixel 11. It still has at least bare minimum support for MTE at a hardware level. We think they removed most of the hardware acceleration from the CPU cache to save money....
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Google disabled MTE (Memory Tagging Extension) support on Pixel 11 at launch but re-enabled it in firmware with Android 17 QPR2 Beta 4. Early testing shows only ~5% performance overhead in asymmetric mode, suggesting the feature was disabled due to performance concerns rather than hardware limitations, though Google has not publicly explained the decision.
Sep 1, 2026
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