Qualcomm supports Snapdragon Wear 5100 chip for smartwatches

Qualcomm has started work on the upcoming Snapdragon Wear 5100 chip targeting smartwatches and bracelets, and the latest reports have indicated that this version is also based on Cortex-A53 cores.

The efficiency of the Snapdragon Wear 4100 series chipset has not reached the performance expected and required in the new generation of smartwatches, especially after a long time has passed since the chipset was released, as well as the targeting design. battery technology.

The new WinFuture report confirms that Qualcomm is developing its new version, the Snapdragon Wear 5100, which comes with a new design that includes 4 Cortex-A53 cores, which is more than the Samsung Exynos W920 chip which includes 2 Cortex-A55 cores.

Despite the inferior performance of the chip, it supports power consumption with higher efficiency, as ARM confirms that A55 cores offer 18% higher performance and 15% more efficient power consumption.

It is reported that Qualcomm has already started testing the chip with 2 GB of RAM in LPDDR4X and 8 or 16 GB of storage in eMMC.