Samsung introduces new 5-nanometre chip for smartwatches
Tuesday, August 10, 2021 at 8:37AM Samsung is expected to launch its new Galaxy Watch4 at tomorrow's Galaxy Unpacked event. Ahead of that launch, Samsung unveiled the Exynos W920, a processor designed for smartphones and wearables. It comes with an integrated LTE modem, and it's the first chip designed for wearables built on a 5-nanometer EUV (extreme ultra-violet) process.
This new chip features dual Cortex-A55 cores, a Mali G68 GPU, and a Cortex M55 processor dedicated to always-on displays to help reduce power consumption. According to Samsung, it offers a 20 percent improvement in CPU performance and a tenfold GPU boost over its last wearable chip. And it is the "smallest package currently available in the market for wearables," according to the company.
In its press release, Samsung explicitly wrote that "the Exynos W920 supports a new unified wearable platform Samsung built jointly with Google, and will be first applied to the upcoming Galaxy Watch model."
Source: Engadget
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