What you may not know is that in addition to chips for smartphones, Qualcomm also manufactures (or rather designs and has them manufactured) chips for wearable devices. With the last such chipsets which were Snapdragon Wear 4100 and 4100+, however, it came some time ago, specifically in the middle of 2020. Now it has penetrated the ether informace, that the company is working on successors to the mentioned chips.
According to the usually well-informed site WinFuture, cited by SamMobile, Qualcomm is developing "next-gen" Snapdragon chips Wear 5100 and 5100+. Both are to be built on Samsung's 4nm manufacturing process. In this context, let us remind you that the chipset Exynos W920, which powers the watch Galaxy Watch4, is manufactured using a 5nm process and is perfectly optimized for system performance Wear OS. The system could thus run even more efficiently on the new Qualcomm chips.
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The website adds that Snapdragon Wear The 5100 and 5100+ will use the same 53 GHz ARM Cortex-A1,7 processor cores as found in their predecessors, so let's not expect any major improvements in processing power. However, we should expect noticeably better performance in the field of graphics - the new chipsets are said to be equipped with an Adreno 720 chip with a clock speed of 700 MHz, which is significantly faster than the Adreno 504 GPU with a frequency of 320 MHz, which the old chipsets use.
According to the website, the "plus" variant will be more compact and, thanks to the presence of the QCC5100 coprocessor, could also be more energy efficient. At this point, it's not known when the new chipsets will be introduced or what wearable devices they will power.
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