Google's first connected watch won't use the latest generation components, far from it. The Pixel Watch is expected to use a chip that is now a few years old, as it was the one that powered the 2018 Galaxy Watch.
Google lifted the veil a few days ago on its first connected watch, the Pixel Watch. Although it won't arrive until next fall, we already know more about its technical characteristics. According to a source from our colleagues at 9to5Google, the watch of the American manufacturer will use a rather old chip, given that it is already 4 years old.
In fact, the Pixel Watch appears to be powered by an Exynos 9110 chip, the same thing that was found in Samsung's Galaxy Watch, which was released in 2018. As a reminder, it's a chip engraved at 10nm with Cortex-A53 cores.
There is no latest SOC generation for the pixel clock
Due to its close partnership with Samsung, the Pixel Watch was expected to use the latest Korean-made chip, the Exynos W920, found in last year's Galaxy Watch 4, among others. In particular, it uses the latest Cortex-A55 cores and a 5nm finer pattern that allows the watch to enjoy a longer autonomy.
We've known that Google has been working on a connected watch for a few years now, but the US manufacturer will take a long time before it formalizes its launch. So it's possible that Google decided to keep the chip that the company started working on during the first tests of the connected watch.
As a reminder, this isn't the first time Google has used a Samsung chip in its devices. The Tensor chip introduced in the Pixel 6 will eventually be just a custom Exynos chip. So it's no surprise that Google is once again relying on the Korean manufacturer's SoCs. However, it was hoped that the first Google Watch would use the next generation chip, and even the next one that would power the Galaxy Watch 5 arriving this summer.
Source: 9to5Google
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