Samsung has surprised in the past day announcing a new generation of processors, although not oriented to its extensive line of mobiles but in the face of the renewal of its smart watches. Known as Samsung Exynos W920, it is the smallest model that has been created to date on the market .

Samsung Exynos W920 has as its main distinctive manufacturing in a five-nanometer process , something that until now had never been achieved by any company in the industry and that will allow a series of optimizations in the general performance of its wearables. For example, Qualcomm stayed at 12 nanometers with its current Snapdragon Wear 4100.

Technical characteristics of Samsung Exynos W920

Samsung Exynos W920 arrives before the announcement of a new Galaxy Watch

In functional terms, the possibility of using a five-nanometer chip will not only contribute to achieving greater efficiency in energy consumption compared to previous wearables, but will also free up physical space inside the devices so that, for example, Samsung can include a higher capacity battery.

According to the official statement, Exynos W920 arrives in “the smallest package currently available on the market for wearables” through the use of “Fan-Out Panel Level Packaging” (FO-PLP) technology that combines the integrated power management circuit ( PMIC), LPDDR4 RAM and eMMC memory in one package.

For its internal performance, this Exynos uses two ARM Cortex-A55 cores (without details on speed) and a Mali-G68 GPU that would allow it to increase the power of the CPU by approximately 20% and that of the GPU ten times compared to the previous generation.

Finally, the new watches with this chip will be able to use screens with qHD resolution (960 x 540 pixels), connect with LTE and GPS wireless networks through the presence of an integrated 4G LTE Cat.4 modem and GPS L1 chip, and it will be optimized the efficiency of the Always-On Display by employing a low-power Cortex-M55 secondary processor to reduce resource consumption.

While waiting for what Qualcomm does with its rumored Snapdragon Wear 5100 (it was leaked for the first time this week), everything indicates that Samsung will be the first to start a new generation of smartwatches with its next Galaxy Watch. Samsung Exynos W920, the smallest processor for wearables