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By Roydon Cerejo | Updated: 1 July 2020 14:29 IST

Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 4100 Platform for Wearables Announced, Promises Improved Performance and Efficiency

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Mobvoi and imoo will launch smartwatches based on the new platform later this year

Highlights

The new platform is based on a more efficient 12nm process
It features faster Cortex-A53 cores and an improved co-processor
Smartwatches based on the new platform should arrive later this year

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Qualcomm has announced its latest Snapdragon Wear 4100 wearables platform for next-gen smartwatches based on Google's Wear OS and Android Open Source Platform (AOSP). The new generation comprises of the Snapdragon Wear 4100 and Snapdragon Wear 4100+ models, with the latter having an always-on co-processor (QCC1110). According to Qualcomm, the new wearables platform boasts of up to 85 percent faster performance and up to 25 percent lesser power consumption, compared to the Snapdragon Wear 3100 platform. Qualcomm also announced that the imoo Z6 Ultra and Mobvoi Tic Watch Pro will be the first two smartwatches based on the Snapdragon Wear 4100 platform to launch later this year.

The platform features four ARM Cortex-A53 cores, based on 12nm manufacturing processor, running up to 1.7GHz. It also has an Adreno 504 graphics processor, for LPDDR3 memory, and 4G LTE. The always-on co-processor in the Snapdragon Wear 4100+ model now s up to 64K colours for ambient mode and can help offload tasks such as continuous heart rate tracking, faster tilt-to-wake responsiveness, etc, from the U. The SoC also includes companion chips for the modem, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, integrated location and dual Qualcomm Hexagon DSPs.

Despite the ongoing pandemic, the wearables market saw strong growth in Q1 2020, according to a Wear OS smartwatches.

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