The upcoming Pixel watch is powered by a 2018 Exynos Chip: Report

Anurag — Sat, 14 May 2022 08:02:07 +0000

Google has announced the much-expected Pixel Watch. We have been hearing rumors about the Pixel-brand watch for the last 4 years and Google finally made it official at the I/O 2022. The official launch is still months away and the specifications of the watch are yet to be known. However, there’s a report floating around that reveals some interesting and also surprising information regarding the processor of the watch. The report claims that the Pixel Watch will arrive with a 2018 Exynos processor.

9to5Google has learned from its sources that the Google Pixel watch will be using Samsung’s Exynos 9110 chip which was first released 4 years ago. The chip debuted with the Samsung Galaxy Watch in 2018.

Earlier, it was rumoured that the smartwatch would be powered by the Samsung Exynos W920, the same processor that powers the Galaxy Watch 4. This would have given the Pixel Watch an upper edge over its competitors, but it seems like Google chose to self-sabotage itself with a 4-year-old processor from a discontinued watch.

It’s definitely disappointing to know that the much-awaited Pixel watch may not land with top of the shelf processor but Google may counter this with the latest software improvements. The company has revealed that the watch will be running WearOS, which is expected to give a faster and more fluid experience under the fingers.

Moreover, the watch includes Fitbit tech which adds features like Sleep tracking and heart rate monitoring. It also lets you see active zone minutes, and allows you to track your progress against personal fitness goals.

Google will be launching this watch as a flagship device, which means it will be priced in the higher range. But will you buy it after knowing that it may feature an outdated chipset? Let us know what you think in the comments.

Samsung Exynos W920 chipset for wearable devices officially launched

Jeet — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 03:33:18 +0000

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.

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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The upcoming Pixel watch is powered by a 2018 Exynos Chip: Report

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