Qualcomm Snapdragon W5 + Gen 1 and Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 for wearables
The new Qualcomm Snapdragon W5 + Gen 1 and Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 platforms offer longer battery life, a high-end user experience and a sleek, innovative design to the ever-growing and segmented wearable industry.
Two years after the launch of Snapdragon Wear 4100 and 4100+, which are now starting to show signs of age, Qualcomm presents the new suite of premium platforms for wearables, Snapdragon W5 + Gen 1 and Snapdragon W5 Gen 1. These solutions are have been designed to deliver groundbreaking, ultra-low-power performance for next-generation connected wearables, with a focus on extending battery life, high-end user experience, and sleek, innovative design. Using these platforms, manufacturers can scale, differentiate and develop products faster in the ever-growing and segmented wearable industry.
Qualcomm Snapdragon W5 + Gen 1 and Snapdragon W5 Gen 1
New enhancements to the Snapdragon W5 + flagship platform deliver 50% lower power, 2x higher performance, 2x richer functionality, and 30% smaller size than the previous generation, enabling wearables manufacturers to deliver differentiated experiences requests from consumers.
Qualcomm Snapdragon W5 + Gen 1
Based on a hybrid architecture, the platform consists of a 4nm system-on-chip and a highly integrated 22nm co-processor. Interestingly, the new Snapdragon W5 + chip still has four ARM Cortex-A53 cores, just like Snapdragon Wear 4100+, but almost everything else has been updated. The GPU is now a 1 GHz Adreno A702, a step up from the previous generation 320 MHz Adreno A504 GPU, and the Core M co-processor has been revamped with a 250 MHz Cortex-M55 (instead of the Cortex- M0 at 50 MHz). And there’s a new Ethos-U55 machine learning co-processor.
Qualcomm Snapdragon W5 + Gen 1
It incorporates a number of platform innovations, including the new ultra-low-power Bluetooth 5.3 architecture, low-power islands for Wi-Fi, GNSS, and audio, and low-power states like Deep Sleep and Hibernate. Additionally, compared to the Snapdragon Wear 4100+ which supports LPDDR3-750 MHz RAM and 16MP cameras, the new processor can handle LPDDR4-2133 MHz memory and up to two 16MP cameras.
Qualcomm Snapdragon W5 + Gen 1
Qualcomm Technologies also unveiled two reference designs from Compal and Pegatron, illustrating the platform’s capabilities and collaborating with ecosystem partners, helping customers develop products faster. Oppo and Mobvoi have already announced the first smartwatches based on these new platforms, with 25 projects under development in all segments
