![]() “Together with Qualcomm Technologies and the ecosystem, Wear OS by Google has enabled a vibrant set of wearable devices, offering consumers with great choice and diversity,” said Dennis Troper, director of product management, Wear OS by Google. They include Fossil, Louis Vuitton, and Montblanc, which is a pretty strong emphasis on the luxury/fashion watch segment. With Google on-stage, singing its praises, Qualcomm announced the first customers for the 3100 SoC. ![]() In the 3100, the coprocessor is taking on that function. The offloading approach is similar to ARM’s big.LITTLE implementation, where the most powerful CPU cores are kept asleep as long as possible, with low-level tasks assigned to smaller more energy efficient cores. The A7 CPU is offloading display and sensor processing to the QCC1110, helping to conserve power. There are three different skews of the SoC – a Bluetooth plus WiFi unit, a GPS but tethered option, and finally an LTE version.Īccording to Google and Qualcomm, there will be a new Enhanced Ambient Mode (fully featured fashion watch), Dedicated Sports Experiences (ultra-marathon capable GPS, for 15-hours of long-duration activities), and Traditional Watch Mode (which sounds like a battery saver mode, to be blunt, but does promise a week-long life). In terms of OS-level improvements, the newest version of Wear OS will be able to provide three new ‘personalized experiences,’ thanks to that low-level coprocessor. A new power management subsystem, the PMW3100, is responsible for the claimed 4-12 hour improvement over the previous generation’s performance. Qualcomm says keyword detection is a good example, but that the performance can be changed over time if the applications change. Qualcomm says that the new chip also houses a deep-learning engine, which can be used for custom workloads by developers. The coprocessor, the QCC1110, measures 21mm 2, and handles much of the audio, display, and sensor functions. This has been quite a long time since the Snapdragon Wear 2100, leading some to question Qualcomm’s enthusiasm about the market – a fair criticism, given that it makes so much more money through smartphones than smartwatches. It is claiming that you can now enjoy the battery life of a sports watch with the richness of a smartwatch – which is a big win if true. A quad-core ARM A7 CPU is the powerhouse of the SoC, supported by a new coprocessor that Qualcomm says is very efficient. The new silicon platform claims significant improvements in battery life, which is still the biggest problem facing smartwatches. Supported and backed by Google, the Qualcomm design is the latest flagship platform for Android-based Wear OS devices, which matters not a jot to Apple – the company that has dominated the smart watch sector to date. ![]() Just before Apple unveiled the fourth iteration of its Apple Watch, Qualcomm had taken the wraps off of its latest smartwatch SoC – the Snapdragon Wear 3100.
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