Samsung has introduced the Exynos W920, a new processor specifically designed for smartphones and wearable devices. Have a integrated LTE modem And it’s the first chip designed for wearable devices to be built on a 5-nanometer EUV (extreme ultraviolet) process, according to Samsung.
The new chip It features two Cortex-A55 cores, a Mali-G68 GPU and a Cortex-M55 processor dedicated to always-on displays that is designed to reduce power consumption. The company claims it offers a 20 percent improvement in CPU performance and a ten-fold increase in GPU than its latest laptop chip. It is also the “smallest processor currently available on the portable device market,” according to its managers.
Samsung explicitly added that “the Exynos W920 is compatible with a new unified wearable platform that Samsung jointly built with Google, and will be applied first to the next Galaxy Watch model.” Undoubtedly, will be the Galaxy Watch 4 which was leaked last month and is expected to be announced tomorrow at Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event.
It is likely that Samsung also unveils its latest smartwatch software that marries Tizen and Wear OS, developed jointly with Google. We expect to see navigation changes, new tiles for third-party apps, higher battery efficiency, better health and fitness tracking, and a more open interface.