Google Pixel Watch could use a four-year-old Exynos chipset from Samsung

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Google showed off a ton of hardware and software earlier this week. Apart from the Pixel 6A and the Pixel Buds Pro, the company revealed the Pixel Watch, Pixel 7 series, and the Pixel Tablet. But Samsung has nothing to worry about Google's new products, especially after looking at a new report.

9To5Google reports that Google's first smartwatch, which will launch later this year, will use a four-year-old Exynos processor. That's right. The Pixel Watch reportedly features the Exynos 9110 chipset that debuted with the original Galaxy Watch in 2018. Let that sink in for a moment.

Google may have started the development of the Pixel Watch quite early. And by the time Samsung launched the Galaxy Watch 4 in late 2021 with the 5nm Exynos W920, it may have been too late for Google to change the chipset. Compared to the Exynos 9110, the Exynos W920 is much faster: 20% faster CPU and 1000% faster graphics.

Samsung Exynos 9110

The situation was so bad in the Wear OS smartwatch ecosystem before the Galaxy Watch 4 that even the four-year-old Exynos 9110 is more power-efficient than the Snapdragon Wear 4100+. Qualcomm's best wearable chipset is fabricated using a 12nm process, while the Exynos 9110 is made using a 10nm process.

By the time the Pixel Watch hits the market, Samsung would've launched the Galaxy Watch 5. The Pixel Watch reportedly uses a 300mAh battery, which means that it might not stand any chance against the Galaxy Watch 5's 572mAh battery and a 5nm chipset.

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Asif Iqbal Shaik - Senior Editor

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First Samsung device: T100

Asif is a computer engineer turned technology journalist. He has been using Samsung phones since 2004, and his current smartphone is the Galaxy S21 Ultra. He loves headphones, mechanical keyboards, and PC hardware. When not writing about technology, he likes watching crime and science fiction movies and TV shows.

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Google's first smartwatch could use a four-year-old Exynos chipset

Asif Iqbal Shaik - Senior Editor

[email protected]

First Samsung device: T100

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