Ahead of the launch of its new wearable devices at the Galaxy Unpacked event tomorrow (i.e. 11th August), Samsung has today officially launched its new chipset — Exynos W920 which is tailor-made for wearable devices.

The Samsung Exynos W920 is a successor to the Exynos 9110 that was unveiled by the South Korean giant around three years ago along with the original Galaxy Watch. This new chip will be powering the upcoming Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 4 Classic.

Samsung Exynos W920

The Exynos W920 is manufactured using Samsung’s latest 5nm process with extreme ultraviolet lithography technology. It features two ARM Cortex-A55 cores and a Mali-G68 GPU. The company claims that the new chipset is about 20 percent faster than the Exynos 9110 in CPU test and offers massive 10x faster graphics performance.

It comes with fan-out panel-level packaging (FO-PLP) that allows manufacturers to house large batteries and apply sleeker designs for their smartwatches. With a system-in-package embedded package on package configuration, it incorporates the power management integrated circuit, LPDDR4 and embedded multimedia car in the same package.

The chipset is said to be able to handle displays of up to 960 x 540 pixels. There’s also a dedicated low-power Cortex-M55 display processor that handles Always-on Display tasks, reducing the overall power consumption. It also comes integrated with a 4G LTE modem, GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System), Wi-Fi b/g/n, and Bluetooth 5.0.

Apart from being powered by this new Exynos W920 processor, the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 4 Classic will also be the first to run the new Wear OS 3.0 platform that is co-developed by Google and Samsung. More information will be revealed tomorrow when these new products are officially launched by Samsung at the Galaxy Unpacked event.

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