Qualcomm to unveil new smartwatch soc likely on September 10

Qualcomm has sent out invitations to an event about smartwatches. The event will take place on September 10. The chip manufacturer said earlier that a successor to the Snapdragon 2100-soc, the chip that is in most Wear OS watches, will be released this fall.

AndroidPolice has received the invitation from Qualcomm. Besides a date and the theme, no information is known. The chip designer does not make watches himself, so it is likely that it concerns a presentation of a new soc for wearables.

In May, a Qualcomm CEO indicated that a successor to the Snapdragon 2100 soc for smartwatches will be released in the fall. That soc is now more than two years old and is in almost all smart watches that run on Wear OS, the former Android Wear. The new soc may be the Snapdragon 3100, which WinFuture published in May.

The soc would be made on a 28nm process, just like the Snapdragon 2100. It is presumably a quad-core based on the ARM Cortex-A7 architecture, combined with an Adreno 304 GPU. Those features are the same as the current Snapdragon 2100, but Qualcomm would have adjusted the power supply, making the new model more economical. That would work with a so-called Blackghost chip that is able to receive voice commands separately from the processor.

According to the information from WinFuture, Google will use the Snapdragon 3100-soc in its new smartwatch and there will also be variants from Fossil, Louis Vuitton, Movado and TAG Heuer. All these devices run on Wear OS from Google. Google will probably present its new watch together with the Pixel 3 smartphones on October 4.