Qualcomm has started using the 4nm process for its flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset and now the company is gearing up to use this new process for the upcoming chips using for wearable devices.
The upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 5100 and Snapdragon Wear 5100+ are expected to be manufactured using the 4nm process node which should result in better performance compared to the current-generation chips.
For those who are unaware, the current-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 4100 chip is built using the 12nm process node while the Snapdragon Wear 3100 was manufactured using the 28nm node.
It is also being reported that Samsung Foundry will be manufacturing these new chips but they will be used by other smartphone manufacturers as well and won’t be limited to devices only from Samsung.
It’s noteworthy that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset is also being manufactured by Samsung using the new 4nm process node.
If the reports are to be believed, then the difference between Wear 5100 and 5100+ comes down to the packaging. The Snapdragon Wear 5100 will separate the SoC and the Power Management Integrated Circuits (PMIC).
On the other hand, the Snapdragon Wear 5100+ will have what is known as Molded Embedded Package (MEP) where everything is packaged together. It is also said to have technology from ARM for heart rate and fall detection and to deliver improved haptics.
Both variants are said to have four Cortex-A53 cores running at a clock speed of 1.7GHz along with the Adreno 702 graphics processor running at 700MHz. They will support up to 4GB of LPDDR4X RAM and eMMC 5.1 storage.
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