Before the Galaxy Watch 4, Samsung unveils its new chip for connected watches |Watchgeneration

14/11/2022 By gifsauce 294 Views

Without waiting for its unpacked event scheduled for tomorrow, Samsung has already lifted a corner of the veil on the engine of the Galaxy Watch 4, new connected watch operating with the operating system from the union between Tizen and Wear OS.

This new engine is the exynos W920 that slams the other chips used so far by connected watches (Apple being apart).This System-sur-Puce engraved in 5 Nm has two cores Cortex A55 and a GPU Mali G68.Samsung promises a 20% gain for processor performance, and performance ten times better for the graphic circuit compared to the exynos 9110.The latter dates back to 2018, it is engraved at 10 Nm and has two cores Cortex A53.

Soc obliges, the exynos w920 also includes a 4G LTE chip (category 4), a GPS, an energy management chip, LPDDR4 RAM as well as EMMC storage.The system supports screens of a definition of up to 960 x 540;The screen management always lit is ensured by a dedicated processor, a Cortex A55, which saves precious juice.Thanks to the reduced size of the SOC, the batteries in the watches can be larger or offer a more slender design.

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This chip represents a giant leap compared to those which haunt Wear OS watches resting mainly on Qualcomm platforms: Snapdragon Wear 2100 (2016) or 3100 (2018), knowing that these two systems work with Cortex A7 engraved at 28nm.The American founder launched a Wear 4100 last year, but very few manufacturers use it, and silicon is already a little dated with a 12 nm engraving and the Cortex A53 (there are four).

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The Apple Watch Series 6 chip includes two Thunder (1.8 GHz) cores from the A13, a chip launched in 2019 and engraved at 7 Nm.The rumor announces a series series 7 equipped with a smaller S7 chip, but also more powerful.

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