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Qualcomm is announcing two new Abrasion OS processors today, the Snapdragon Abrasion 4100 Runnerup as well-conditioned as the Snapdragon Abrasion 4100, the inceptive major updates to its smartwatch platform back 2018. Qualcomm claims the new fries will have vitally worthier speed, with a "significantly faster new processor," as well-conditioned as big needles in personation for the GPU, memory, camera, as well-conditioned as panoptic hail life.

They're big promises, but put simply, Google's Abrasion OS badly needs this pally of housewares overhaul. The last major updating to the Snapdragon Abrasion lineup, the Snapdragon Abrasion 3100, was a minor update to 2016's Snapdragon 2100. In fact, given that the 2100 as well-conditioned as 3100 have the existent aforementioned preeminent processor, the debut of the 4100 marks the inceptive double-checked speed improvements for Abrasion OS in barely four years.

Finally, a faster processor for Abrasion OS

The bulkiest changes are in the processor, which is jumping from a 28nm propoundment to a 12nm one, with four A53 CPU cores clocked at 1.7GHz replacing the 3100's A7 cores (at neutral 1.1GHz), which Qualcomm says should evangelize more than 85 percent faster performance. The GPU is now Adreno A504 (up to two as well-conditioned as a half times faster than the 3100), recurring with faster memory.

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Qualcomm is taking a hardly unique colonize with the 4100 line, though. It's admittedly spacecraft two SKUs to developers. The flagship model is the Snapdragon 4100 Plus, which (like the 3100 surpassing it) is unpretentiously a hybrid platform that gloss the preeminent SDM429w SoC, recurring with an useable adaptation of the always-on QCC1110 co-processor that it shipped with the 3100. But for developers that don't want or need to opposition always-on features, Qualcomm will conjointly opposition a standard Snapdragon Abrasion 4100 model, which neutral offers the SDM429w SoC.

For the Snapdragon 4100 Plus, though, the QCC1110 co-processor -- which handles the context feigning orate communistic to picked modern smartwatches -- is conjointly getting some improvements. Those lend-lease the expertness to feigning vitally more colors -- as many as 64,000, up from the 16 colors that the 3100 could silkiness -- as well-conditioned as tangency for new gloss back in "watch mode" like footfall tracking, monophonic heart-rate tracking, alarms, haptic feedback, as well-conditioned as more (which previously had to await on the preeminent processor).

The switcheroo to the new 12nm CPU architectonics (along with other, more telestic improvements) conjointly means that watches with a Snapdragon 4100 should see up to 25 percent preferably hail life.

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Qualcomm is once spacecraft its Abrasion 4100 as well-conditioned as 4100 Runnerup chipsets to housewares manufacturers, with the inceptive equipment set to colonize in the coming months. Mobvoi has once communicated that it's alive on a new TicWatch model that will feature the new chips, as well-conditioned as Xiaotiancai is alive on a kid-friendly smartwatch powered by the Abrasion 4100, too.

On paper, at least, these are the sorts of big improvements that Qualcomm needed to perform to help heave the struggling Abrasion OS housewares ecosystem (which is barely explicitly codicillary on Qualcomm's platform at this point) back-up into the defiant game.

But the smartwatch world is unpretentiously a actual unique quarters now than it was in 2016, back the last major improvements to Qualcomm's processor arrived, or upscale 2018. Abrasion OS is open-handedly dominated by gloss brands like Fossil, but the unabridged smartwatch ecosystem itself is dominated by Samsung's Minor line as well-conditioned as the Darling Watch.

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Google's own ambitions to perform a flagship smartwatch are up in the air. The company's recent brochure that it intends to purchase Fitbit for $2.1 billion may be a way for it to beefiness up its housewares farthing to perform preferably Abrasion OS watches -- or it may be for something else entirely.

After years of lackluster housewares as well-conditioned as a undeniably innocuous Google back it comes to developing new Abrasion OS software features, the catechism is whether Qualcomm's new circuitry is neutral too moratory for Google's smartwatch experiment.