Qualcomm Unveiled W5 Gen 1 & W5+ Gen 1 For Wearable Platforms

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1 Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 Series:

2 Specifications

2.1 Efficiency & Performance

2.2 Cores & Features

3 First Device

Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 Series:

After Qualcomm unveiled the next-gen wearable SoC last week, Qualcomm officially announced the Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 and W5+ Gen 1 SoCs. These two new chipsets are based on the 4nm process and bring significant improvements compared to previous chipsets.

Qualcomm claims that these two new chipsets offer twice the performance at half the power of the Snapdragon Wear 4100+ platform. Smartwatches with this new chipset are expected to launch next month. Let’s take a closer look at the specifications of the W5 Gen 1 and W5+ Gen 1 SoCs below.

Specifications

Efficiency & Performance

Qualcomm introduced its latest snapdragon W5+ gen 1 and W5 gen 1 wearable platforms. consistent with Qualcomm, snapdragon W5+ Gen 1 consumes lower than 50% less power than previous generations while giving double the performance and 30% smaller features. compact.

the premise of the recently introduced snapdragon wearable platforms is additionally a hybrid architecture. An extremely integrated 22nm always-on coprocessor with a 4nm SoC formed each snapdragon wearable platform. The ultra-low power Bluetooth 5.3 is also compatible with Qualcomm’s snapdragon W5+ gen 1 and flower W5 gen 1 processors.

Cores & Features

Qualcomm claims the new chip can unlock a variety of new interactive experiences, such as B. 3D watch faces, 3D maps and navigation, real-time image recognition, intelligent two-way calling, intelligent device control and more. The company goes on to add that the chip is also capable of handling new ultra-low-power environmental experiences.

Snapdragon W5 Plus Gen 1 packs four Arm Cortex-A53 cores paired with a Cortex-M55 core for AI/ML tasks. the Snapdragon W5 Plus Gen 1 features GPU and Adreno 702 at 1 GHz.It’s also a significant improvement over the 320MHz Adreno 504 GPU found in the Snapdragon Wear 4100+.

Qualcomm hasn’t shared any details about the regular Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 chip. Based on the differences between the Snapdragon Wear 4100 and Snapdragon Wear 4100+, we suspect the regular variant could be essentially the same chip without a couple of features.

First Device

As per a recent collaboration, the OPPO & Mobvoi will be the first to use this chip. Eventually, we find OPPO Watch 3 also gets some specifications changes which would use the latest snapdragon wearable chips.

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