Comment by hocuspocus

> It does, without it you don't get video output. You need the soc to have DisplayPort lanes and a phy to the USB-C port.

Of course, you need hardware support. Which has been present since 2017. Yet Google never bothered enabling the feature, so this has nothing to do with the SoC, it's just a choice.

> No phones in that generation had video output.

What? There are literally dozens of counterexamples.

The Essential Phone 1 had video output, not the Pixel 2. Same SoC: Qualcomm Snapdragon 835.

> Google's Tensor is not a flagship Exynos, but more of a budget cut down "Walmart" version of it, made specifically only for Google.

Cheap or not, Tensor Gx are still direct variations of the Exynos 2x00 line, which have video output.