The Galaxy Watch 4 also brought with it a replacement Exynos chip designed for wearable devices. Built on a 5nm process, the Exynos W920 promises to be the foremost powerful and most energy-efficient platform for smartwatches today, though it’s only available for Samsung smartwatches anyway. Qualcomm is predicted to fireside back soon with a Snapdragon Wear 5100 but supported new yet unofficial information, and it could find yourself being a touch of a dud in a minimum of one aspect.
The Snapdragon Wear 5100, if which will be its name, was first spotted last month in Qualcomm’s own ASCII text file. There was barely any detail available, but some guesswork suggested it might be supported by Snapdragon platforms that used four Cortex-A73 and 4 Cortex-A53 cores. Naturally, it had been hoped that Qualcomm would choose the more powerful cores, but this may not be the case.
According to WinFuture’s information, the Snapdragon Wear 5100 will be using four Cortex-A53 cores, almost like the Snapdragon Wear 4100/4100+, though exact clock speeds weren’t provided. Meaning it’ll still use the 12nm low-power process as last year’s wearable chipset, which might technically fall behind the Exynos W920 in terms of raw performance and power efficiency. There’ll still be an “ultra low power” processor to handle more menial tasks to save lots of battery life.
That’s not to say that the chipset won’t see important upgrades. For example, it’ll be ready to support more and faster RAM, up to 2GB LPDDR4X, and storage in 8GB and 16GB capacities. Qualcomm is additionally testing support for 5MP and 16MP camera sensors, but that doesn’t exactly translate to smartwatches with cameras.
There’s no date yet on when the Snapdragon Wear 5100 is about to seem, but it’d not matter much if smartwatch makers are still just adopting the Snapdragon Wear 4100 now. Things don’t paint an encouraging picture overall when Wear OS smartwatches still lag behind Apple’s and Samsung’s devices.
