Samsung announces new smartwatch processor ahead of Galaxy Watch 4 launch

A day before the official unveiling of its new hardware lineup, South Korean tech giant Samsung has announced the processor that will power its upcoming smartwatch series — Galaxy Watch 4. The chipset — called Exynos W920 — supports the new unified wearable platform that has been co-developed by Samsung and Google.

Samsung Exynos W920 SoC: Specs and features

The new chipset that is set to power the Galaxy Watch 4 models, packs two Arm Cortex A55 cores and an Arm Mali G68 GPU. With this, Samsung claims that buyers will get 20% improved CPU performance and 10-times better graphics performance than its predecessor.