Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 and W5+ Gen 1 chips for wearables, based on 4nm process and debuting in watches from Oppo and Mobvoi
The upgrade we've been waiting for is here. — What you need to know — Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon W5 platform for wearables.
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Discussion
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@witeken
@witeken
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Imagine if Intel announced Silvermont CPU in 2022. https://twitter.com/...
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@anshelsag
@anshelsag
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@Mobile_Dom @Qualcomm Can't say I disagree, A53 is a ten-year-old core, and A55 and A510 are both faster and more power efficient, especially if used on a leading node which especially the A510 is designed for. Heck, even the W920 from Samsung uses an A55 on 5nm.
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@greengart
Avi Greengart
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New @qualcomm #wearable silicon W5/W5+ is on a 4nm process node, is physically smaller, and W5+ has coprocessor for lower power mode. Google's WearOS will presumably fully support the new SoC (a problem with the Snapdragon 3100). That's the good news. https://www.qualcomm.com/...
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@greengart
Avi Greengart
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The problem is that @Qualcomm is trying to serve a vertical market with a horizontal solution. Wrist wearables need tight integration between silicon, hardware, software, and phone OS. Vertical integration at the point of design is even better. Apple has that.
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@stephennellis
Stephen Nellis
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@anshelsag ... Hmmm....not investing in moving to newer Arm cores suggests to me - and I'm speculating here, not based on reporting - that they've got plans to do their own custom core work here...too bad Alex Katouzian doesn't seem to be on Twitter!
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@anshelsag
@anshelsag
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.@Qualcomm just announced its new wearable platform, which includes the W5 and W5+ which is similar to the previous generation 4100 and 4100+ whereas the + variant has a low-power co-processor for lower power consumption. Qualcomm has moved to 4nm for the W5, but still uses A53. …
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@mobile_dom
Domenico Lamberti
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@anshelsag @Qualcomm it would have been dumb, but i would have loved to see them go to A510 for this. but even A55 would have been a nice boost
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@anshelsag
@anshelsag
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@StephenNellis ... That does actually sound plausible, we've only heard about the high-performance core designs...
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@greengart
Avi Greengart
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Samsung has come close — though lacking access to the phone OS meant it needed to adopt Google's WearOS for app access. This is why Google's Pixel Watch has so much potential if it uses custom silicon and nails the use case. It took Apple a couple of generations to get it right.
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@greengart
Avi Greengart
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For more of my thoughts on @qualcomm W5 and #wearables context, see @OutOnALumb's article for @CNET: https://www.cnet.com/...