The information we provided in our post about MTE is accurate. Pixel 11 does not support MTE in either firmware or software. It's not known to what extent it's supported in hardware beyond that it appears to work fine with the partial MTE support in the Beta firmware. The Beta firmware wasn't yet available when we made our post and still lacks the full set of functionality. It's enough for testing it which we've done. It would be possible for GrapheneOS to use it if it ships in December 2026 as part of Android 17 QPR2 but it isn't known that it will happen. We would need to work around the incomplete support for it which is clearly only meant for testing.

Google has gone through years of cost cutting via mass layoffs, buyouts and driving away many employees through ending remote work. It's not due to any shortage of money but rather maximizing profit at the expense of overall quality and security. Android has been heavily impacted by the cost cutting, especially the security team. There's a very visible impact through less frequent security updates, missed updates for Pixels including Android 17 QPR1 not shipping for the Pixel 11. If the reason for MTE not being available at launch is that they lacked resources to get a small amount of work done on the firmware and software to provide it, then that would heavily reinforce our point.

There has been news reporting with leaks showing they planned to cut MTE support to reduce the die size and save money but we don't think that's relevant yet. The cores aren't yet the planned custom cores and hopefully they'll have reversed the decision by then after seeing Apple's launch of MTE integration. Their leaked plans to remove it at a hardware level predate Apple's integration being publicly announced.

Dude, we know Google is out to get us, all of us. Start from there and everything else follows.