Two years after launching the Snapdragon Put on 3100, Qualcomm has introduced the Snapdragon Put on 4100 collection of chipsets for wearable units. The brand new chipset collection for Put on OS contains the Snapdragon Put on 4100 and 4100+ look to ship a significant efficiency increase for smartwatches.

The corporate introduced the current Put on 3100 which powers all present units in September 2018. However the chip provided no important improve over the Put on 2100 from 2016. It packed the identical CPU with the most important distinction being one other element that made doable power-efficient always-on shows.

The brand new Snapdragon Put on 4100 utilises a extra environment friendly and smaller 12nm processor in comparison with 28nm utilized by its predecessor. Qualcomm says this makes for a “considerably quicker new processor.” It additionally brings 25% enchancment within the battery life and there may be equally a quicker LPDDR3 reminiscence. The processor options quad-core A53 processors clocked at 1.7GHz for 85% quicker efficiency and the graphics is powered by the Adreno 504 GPU which is 2.5x quicker. There may be help for as much as 16-megapixel cameras whereas a lower-power 4G LTE modem can be onboard.

On its half, Snapdragon Put on 4100+ options an up to date QCC1110 co-processor that may deal with extra duties. This contains offloading sleep monitoring and heart-rate monitoring to this resource-efficient chip as a substitute of the primary CPU.

Different enhancements embrace, “watch mode” which now helps as much as 64,000 colors, battery indicators, alarms, reminders, and haptics, whereas Qualcomm touts “quicker tilt-to-wake responsiveness.” The common 4100 lacks the co-processor for producers that don’t want an ambient show.

Other than Put on OS, the Snapdragon Put on 4100 collection helps Android Open Supply Platform (AOSP).

Qualcomm says wearable units operating the Snapdragon Put on 4100 shall be delivery quickly. Watchmaker Mobvoi has hinted that it has a “next-generation TicWatch Professional” coming with the brand new chip later this 12 months. Additionally, child smartwatch model imoo is planning to launch a tool inside the subsequent month.

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