South Korean tech giant Samsung has officially launched a new Exynos W920 chipset for wearables ahead of its launch of new wearable devices at the Galaxy unpacked event on 11th August. The chip is expected to feature on the Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 4 classic. The Samsung Exynos act as a successor to the Exynos 9110 which was launched three years ago alongside the original Galaxy Watch.
Specifications Of Samsung Exynos W920
The Samsung Exynos W920 is built on the 5nm extreme ultraviolet process node. It uses two ARM Cortex A55 cores and the MaliG68 GPU. The brand claims that it will bring a 20% improvement in performance and 10 times improvement in graphics performance than its predecessor.
The Exynos W920 comes in the smallest package with Fan-out Panel Level Packaging(FO-PLP). The chipset incorporates power management IC(PMIC), LPDDR4, and embedded multimedia card(eMMC) in the same package using a system in package embedded package on package (Sip-ePoP) configuration. The chipsets compact size allows the smartwatches to house large batteries and sleeker designs.
The Samsung Exynos W920 supports qHD display with 960×540 pixel resolutions. The chipset also features a dedicated low-power Cortex-M55 display processor for handling Always-On display (AoD)tasks. This feature of the chipset reduces the overall power consumption of wearable devices. The chipset also supports Wear OS 3.0 developed by Google and Samsung.
As far as connectivity is concerned, Exynos W920 comes with a 4G LTE modem and a Global Navigation Satelite System (GNSS), Wi-fi b/g/n, and Bluetooth 5.0
Further details regarding the new chipset will be disclosed soon after the launch of new products by Samsung at the Galaxy Unpacked event.
