Qualcomm announces the next generation smart watch chip set 'Snapdragon Wear 3100', achieving battery life of up to 2 days

Qualcomm has announced the next generation platform for smart watch " Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 3100 ". The Snapdragon Wear 3100 is a chipset designed based on a new ultra low power system architecture to realize a much better long battery life than before, with 4 cores ARM Cortex A 7 for CPU, Adreno 304, and it can greatly contribute to prolonging battery life of smart watch by combining "QCC 1110" coprocessor which realized ultra-low power consumption of new design and high-performance integrated DSP is.

Snapdragon Wear 3100 Platform | Qualcomm
https://www.qualcomm.com/products/snapdragon-wear-3100-platform

Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 3100 Platform Supports New Ultra Low Power System Architecture for Next Generation Smartwatches | Qualcomm
https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2018/09/10/qualcomm-snapdragon-wear-3100-platform-supports-new-ultra-low-power-system

Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear 3100 smartwatch chipset promises up to 2 days of battery life
https://venturebeat.com/2018/09/10/qualcoms-new-snapdragon-wear-3100-smartwatch-chipset-delivers-up-to-two-days-of-battery-life/

The Snapdragon Wear 3100 announced by Qualcomm is a chipset that aims to expand not only the power of smart watch but also the use applications widely by suppressing power consumption as much as possible. Qualcomm has cooperated with Wear OS by Google development team to develop a new chipset. The first smart watch equipped with Snapdragon Wear 3100 will be released from fashion brands such as Louis Vuitton , FOSSIL and Mont Blanc .

The main features of Snapdragon Wear 3100 are "Rich Interactive Mode", "New Personalized Experience" and "Supporting Long Battery Life".

"Rich Interactive Mode" serves as a powerful foundation for providing high performance, superior connectivity, smart sensing, and attractive features. Qualcomm works closely with the Wear OS by Google development team during the development of Snapdragon Wear 3100 and Dennis Troper, Product Management Director of Wear OS by Google, said: "By combining Qualcomm and the ecosystem, Wear OS We have been able to turn our by Google into an attractive wearable device that can offer consumers a wide range of choices and diversity. "

"New Personalized Experience" provides three modes for Wear OS by Google based platform. Three modes are "Ambient Mode", "Sports Experience", "Traditional Watch Mode". "Ambient mode" is to make a fashionable smart watch like a fashion watch, using a smooth second hand and colors of up to 16 colors. "Sports experience" is a mode designed to measure heart rate and enable GPS function when active users do marathon, swimming, long-distance cycling, even hiking in mountainous areas, etc. . And "Traditional Watch Mode" is a mode designed to allow consumers to use Smart Watch for a long time.

In addition, the Snapdragon Wear 3100 is equipped with a low power consumption mode to "support long battery life." It is also designed to reduce power usage in areas such as GPS / position batch processing, minute / second clock update, sensor processing, MP3 playback, Wi-Fi / Bluetooth voice query, Compared to the previous model Snapdragon Wear 2100, how long the battery life will extend depends largely on the terminal configuration, display size, battery capacity, etc., but on average it will take about 4 to 12 hours longer. The battery life of the smart watch equipped with the Snapdragon Wear 3100 will be about one and a half to two days by that.

The core of such Snapdragon Wear 3100 is "Qualcomm QCC 1110", which is an ultra compact new design coprocessor of 21 square millimeters or less. It is optimized to realize the concept "ultra low power consumption" and it will function as a powerful partner of the main processor which redefines the audio display / sensor experience of the next generation smart watch. QCC 1110 also integrates a deep learning engine for custom workloads such as keyword detection.

In addition, the Snapdragon Wear 3100 is equipped with a new wearable power management subsystem "PMW 3100" to support high integration and low power consumption. The PMW 3100 employs a new DSP framework to support next generation sensor processing in an open execution environment and implements a new dual display architecture that supports a hierarchical approach.

In addition, the 4 G LTE modem installed in the Snapdragon Wear 3100 has been improved from what has already shipped more than 1 billion units, specifically concretely by pairing with a new high performance gallium arsenide power amplifier It is said that it is improving power efficiency.