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Qualcomm teased a new chipset for smartwatches last week and delivered the punchline today. The company unveiled its new Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 and W5+ Gen 1 chipsets moments ago along with some pretty big claims. By the sound of it, the Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 chipsets are the Wear OS market’s best medicine. The company claims that the chipsets deliver twice the performance at half the energy cost of its prior chipsets for wearable devices, albeit nothing is set in stone. Qualcomm clarified that the final results should become…

Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon W5 and W5+, its latest line of Snapdragon-branded smartwatch chipsets. They’re designed to power the next generation of Wear OS devices, with Oppo and Mobvoi the first to pledge their support.  It’s been over two years since the company’s last wearable chips, the Snapdragon Wear 4100 and 4100+. That time seems to have been well spent though, with Qualcomm promising “dramatic generational improvements” to battery life and performance that justify the long wait – and the rebrand.…

AMD recently shared a roadmap of its desktop and mobile client processors at Financial Analyst Day 2022. However, it didn't take long for hardware leaker Tum_Apisak (opens in new tab) to dig up one of the chipmaker's upcoming processors, presumably Phoenix Point.Phoenix Point is the successor to AMD's Ryzen 6000 (Rembrandt) mobile APUs. Although AMD didn't reveal the exact time frame for Phoenix Point's release, the next-generation chips should hit the market next year. Phoenix Point will see AMD's jump from TSMC's 6nm…

A new report from Naver cites industry sources that Samsung Electronics foundries will begin mass-producing Google’s second-generation Tensor chipset on the 4nm process this month. Google revealed it would launch two new Pixel 7 models in the fall – these new devices would feature the new chipset. The other thing mentioned was the use of PLP technology. “PLP is a packaging technique which chips cut from a wafer are placed on a rectangular panel. It is possible to minimize the discarded edge, thereby reducing cost and…