The long-awaited Google Pixel Watch was finally unveiled at this year’s Google I / O show, although the company was particularly concerned about its specifications. In fact, we didn’t hear much, except for the fact that it would also be launched with the Pixel 7. Now, however, a new report from 9to5Google suggests that it will pack the Exynos 9110, a chipset that launched four years ago.
While it’s obviously disappointing that Google didn’t pack the latest Exynos W920 chipset in its first smartwatch, there are probably reasons why. The most likely reason is that the Pixel Watch has been under development for a long, long time. The company has been planning it since the first Google Pixel smartphone and the rumors rose again in 2018 before the launch of the Pixel 3 series.
Given all this, it is very possible to develop this on older hardware, because it is technically an older device. According to 9to5Google, Pixel Watch has started developing Android 9 Pie. If Google eventually switched to the Exynos W920, it could slow development even further.
However, not everything is bad. Exynos 9110 is built on a 10nm process, packaged with two Cortex-A53 cores. This means that it is more efficient than Qualcomm’s latest offer and we hope that it will go well with the reported 300 mAh battery. For reference, Qualcomm’s latest wearable chip is the Snapdragon Wear 4100 Plus, manufactured in a 12nm process and equipped with four Cortex-A53 cores.
Indeed, the only problem with the Pixel Watch is that it will probably not be able to compete with the best of Samsung, as the Galaxy Watch 5 series is expected to launch somewhere before the Pixel Watch. The Galaxy Watch 5 will probably have at least the Exynos W920, which means it will still beat the Exynos 9110, though probably not by a huge amount in actual use.
While it would be nice to have the latest and greatest chipset in Google’s first premier smartwatch, processors aren’t everything. We learned so much with the Google Pixel 6 series and how Google Tensor has remained competitive against the current generation of chipsets thanks to Google optimizations, even though it is based on the theoretically weaker Exynos chipset. We will wait to see if the rumors are true and if so, what Google can do with the older chip.
Source: 9to5Google
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