Snapdragon Wear 5100 and 5100+ engraved in 4 nm by Samsung, which will also be entitled to a new GPU.
With the notable exception of the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4, most smartwatches on the market are powered by Qualcomm chips. The most recent models are mainly based on a Snapdragon Wear 4100 or 4100+ SoC, two references launched in June 2020. Qualcomm will soon release their successors: the American company is preparing a chip soberly called “SW5100” which will again be available in two variants, Wear 5100 and Wear 5100+.
SoCs for connected watches engraved in 4 nm
According to information shared by WinFuture, these chips would benefit from a 4 nm engraving entrusted to Samsung. The Snadragon Wear 4100 and 4100+ are manufactured on the 12 nm node, while the older SoC Wear 3100, dated 2018, is on 28 nm.
The two Snapdragon Wear 5100 and 5100+ chips would still have four ARM Cortex-A53 cores. The CPU would be clocked at 1.7 GHz against 2 GHz for the Wear 4100 Plus. On the other hand, the chips would inherit an Adreno 702 GPU clocked at 700 MHz instead of the Adreno 504. On the other hand, these SoCs would support up to 4 GB of LPDDR4X RAM, where the Wear 4100s are limited to LPDDR3, as well as eMMC 5.1 memory and no longer just eMMC 4.5.
In terms of connectivity, WinFuture announces Bluetooth 5.2, Wi-Fi 5 GHz (802.11c) and LTE. The SoCs would be able to manage two sensors, one of 16 MP and one of 13 MP.
A coprocessor for the Snadragon 5100+
In addition, note that the Snapdragon 5100+ would adopt a so-called MEP structure (Molded Embedded Package) in which the SoC and the PMIC (Power Management IC) are integrated into a single housing. The Snadragon 5100, meanwhile, would feature a so-called MLP design (Molded Laser Package) where they are separated.
Finally, like the Snapdragon Wear 4100+, the Wear 5100+ would integrate a QCC510 coprocessor capable of performing certain tasks without having to mobilize the cores of the main ARM Cortex processor. The goal is of course to increase autonomy.
The launch date of the Snapdragon Wear 5100 remains uncertain at this stage.
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Source: WinFuture
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