Samsung has announced the Exynos W920, a brand new processor designed for smartwatches and different wearables. The firm says it’s the world’s first wearable-specific chip to be constructed on a 5nm course of, serving to enhance efficiency and effectivity.

The Exynos 920 has two Cortex-A55 cores and a Mali-G68 GPU. (For context, Qualcomm’s high-end Snapdragon 888 has 4 Cortex-A55 cores which can be used for low-power duties.) Samsung is claiming 20 p.c higher CPU efficiency and ten instances higher GPU efficiency than its earlier wearable chip. The W920 additionally features a Cortex-M55 processor that’s devoted to driving an always-on show, additional lowering energy consumption.

We seemingly gained’t have to attend too lengthy to see this chip utilized in a industrial machine. Samsung explicitly says that the Exynos W920 “supports a new unified wearable platform Samsung built jointly with Google, and will be first applied to the upcoming Galaxy Watch model.”

That mannequin is sort of actually the extensively leaked Galaxy Watch 4 collection, which we’re anticipating to see break official cowl at Samsung’s Unpacked occasion on Wednesday. As Samsung mentions, the corporate has been working with Google on new smartwatch software program that mixes Tizen and Wear OS, and now we all know that it’ll be working on new {hardware} as effectively. That must be excellent news, since efficiency has lengthy been an issue on Wear OS watches.