Qualcomm will announce its next chipset for wearables on September 10

07 August 2018
The new SoC will hopefully replace the aging Snapdragon Wear 2100 and enable better battery life.

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AnonD-594740, 08 Aug 2018Nop Cortex A7... https://www.qualcomm.com/snapdragon/pr... moreThanks for the correction.
That means the ARM Cortex A35 will be a sensible upgrade to the Snapdragon Wear platform; a jump from v7 architecture to v8, higher performance at higher power efficiency https://developer.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a35?_ga=2.62368616.532602140.1533718389-1622816900.1508504505

Though I would like to see them use ARM Cortex A55

    September 10. Will it use 10nm fabrication?

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      • 08 Aug 2018

      H-1, 08 Aug 2018I wonder why no smartwatch has been made with e-ink! I know... morePebble had e-ink smartwatches. Couldn't survive long time....

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        • 08 Aug 2018

        O S, 07 Aug 2018The current Snapdragon Wear 2100 SoC is based on ARM Cortex... moreNop
        Cortex A7...

        https://www.qualcomm.com/snapdragon/processors/wear-2100

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          • 08 Aug 2018

          O S, 08 Aug 2018The Fitbit Surge had it.Haven't noticed them before, thanks for the heads-up :)

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            • 08 Aug 2018

            H-1, 08 Aug 2018I wonder why no smartwatch has been made with e-ink! I know... moreThe Pebble Time had 64 color e-paper (e-ink) screen.

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              • 08 Aug 2018

              H-1, 08 Aug 2018I wonder why no smartwatch has been made with e-ink! I know... moreThe Fitbit Surge had it.

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                • 08 Aug 2018

                I wonder why no smartwatch has been made with e-ink! I know it has slow refresh rate, but should be good for notifications and other small tasks, still far better battery life. Coupled with the new SoC we might see smartwatches lasting a week or so.

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                  • 07 Aug 2018

                  The current Snapdragon Wear 2100 SoC is based on ARM Cortex A53 architecture.
                  ARM Cortex A35 provides better power efficiency but at lower performance.
                  ARM Cortex A55 provides better power efficiency and higher performance.

                  The right choice will be to base this new Snapdragon Wear platform on ARM Cortex A55.

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                    • 07 Aug 2018

                    What happened to Adreno Turbo?

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