As expected, Samsung is switching the new Galaxy Watch 9 to a Qualcomm chip, the Snapdragon Wear Elite, some new images confirm.
Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon Wear Elite, its latest smartwatch chipset earlier this year The 3nm chip promises faster overall performance and a ton of extra power for AI tasks. It has also been teased that Samsung will adopt the chip.
This is big news because the Galaxy Watch series has exclusively used Exynos chipsets for years, which actually worked in their favor during the few years they had Qualcomm’s chips. overturningwe will say. The only question left was whether or not Samsung would abandon Exynos altogether.
It seems the answer is yes.
Evan Blass came out of retirement again via “Leakmail”. newsletterWith a number of images, including one that clearly shows the Galaxy Watch 9 and not the Ultra 2 as “powered by Snapdragon Wear Elite.”
Again, not a surprise, but nice to see.
As for what Samsung can do with the extra horsepower, we’ll have to wait and see…
The Galaxy Watch 9 will drop in price next week, along with Samsung’s new foldable devices.
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