Samsung presents Exynos W920 soc for wearables

Samsung has officially announced the Exynos W920, a new soc for the upcoming Galaxy Watch 4 and other wearables. The soc is equipped with a 4G modem and is the first wearables soc made on a 5nm node.

In a news release, Samsung writes that the Exynos W920 contains two Arm Cortex-A55 cores and an Arm Mali-G68 GPU, which should provide a significant improvement over the previous generation soc for wearables, the Exynos 9110. -performance should be 20 percent better and the GPU performance ten times better, according to Samsung. In addition, the soc is equipped with a 4G LTE-Cat 4 modem and GNSS.

The soc is also equipped with a separate Cortex M55 core for controlling the always-on display of a smartwatch, for features such as quickly showing the time, notifications and missed calls in sleep mode. That way the regular CPU does not have to be woken up. This saves energy consumption and thus battery life.

It had been known for some time that the upcoming Galaxy Watch 4 would be equipped with the Exynos W920 soc, but no details about the processor had been confirmed yet. That the new soc is in the Watch 4, Samsung confirms in the news item.

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 will be officially announced next Wednesday at Samsung’s Unpacked event, along with the new foldable Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 2. The Watch 4 watches will get OLED screens with a resolution of 450×450 pixels, the Exynos soc, combined with 1.5GB RAM and 16GB flash storage. The Watch 4 comes in different sizes.

Samsung made a new Android Wear OS for the Galaxy Watch 4 together with Google, which is a combination of Samsung’s Tizen and Google’s Wear OS, with its own user interface. Samsung confirms in the news item that the Exynos W920 fully supports this operating system.