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Qualcomm VP discusses its 'next' chip for Wear OS watches

The next Snapdragon Wear chipset from Qualcomm should be a "feature-driven" SoC with custom RISC-V cores, AI tech, and plenty of "headroom."

(Image credit: Michael Hicks / Android Central)Up until now, smartwatches using Arm cores have had the challenge of scaling up to smartphone-level functions on a battery that's an order of magnitude smaller, Bekis says. The Pixel Watch 3 uses two-year-old hardware without any hiccups (Image credit: Michael Hicks / Android Central)I asked the Qualcomm VP why we don't see a wider array of smartwatch chipsets. Future Wear OS watches could share the same Masimo-made health sensor suite (Image credit: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central)What could the Snapdragon W5 Gen 2 do with this headroom?

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