{"id":19733,"date":"2022-07-20T02:28:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T02:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/qualcomms-snapdragon-w5-promises-big-speed-and-battery-gains-for-wear-os-watches\/"},"modified":"2022-07-20T02:28:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T02:28:51","slug":"qualcomms-snapdragon-w5-promises-big-speed-and-battery-gains-for-wear-os-watches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/qualcomms-snapdragon-w5-promises-big-speed-and-battery-gains-for-wear-os-watches\/","title":{"rendered":"Qualcomm’s Snapdragon W5+ promises big speed and battery gains for Wear OS watches"},"content":{"rendered":"
Snapdragon-based Wear OS smartwatches haven’t typically kept pace with rivals from Apple and Samsung. The Wear 4100+ was built using relatively old manufacturing processes, and the performance was rarely noteworthy. Qualcomm appears to have taken some of those criticisms to heart, though, as it’s introducing Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 and W5+ Gen 1 chips (so long, Wear branding) that not only promise much-needed speed and battery life improvements, but might expand the range of wearables that use the company’s technology.<\/p>\n
The star of the show, the Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1, makes the leap from a 12-nanometer system-on-chip in the 4100+ (already somewhat outdated by 2020) to a cutting-edge 4nm design with much newer Adreno 702 graphics and support for 2,133MHz memory, albeit with the familiar quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 architecture. The new W1 AON co-processor, meanwhile, has moved from 28nm to 22nm, uses the newer Cortex-M55 architecture and includes the Bluetooth functionality previously reserved for the more demanding main SoC. There are also low-power “islands” in the main chip that let audio, navigation and WiFi run without waking other components, while new Deep Sleep and Hibernate states lean almost exclusively on the co-processor when tasks only require the bare minimum of computing power.<\/p>\n
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