Skip to main content

Featured Post

AMD to invest $400 million in India by 2028: Here’s what we know

US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design center in the tech hub of Bengaluru. AMD’s announcement was made by its Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster at an annual semiconductor conference that started Friday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Other speakers at the flagship event include Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Despite being a late entrant, the Modi government has been courting investments into India’s nascent chip sector to establish its credentials as a chipmaking hub. AMD said it will open its new design centre campus in Bengaluru by end of this year and create 3,000 new engineering roles within five years. “Our India teams will continue to play a pivotal role in delivering the high-performance and adaptive solutions that support AMD customers worldwide,” Papermaster said. The new 500,000-square-foot (55,5...
1 comment
Read more
Labels

Oppo Watch 3 might be the first smartwatch to come the new Snapdragon W5 Gen 1

Qualcomm recently unveiled its Snapdragon W5 and W5+ wearable chipsets globally. The first smartwatch to be powered by one of the new chipsets has already been revealed. As per Oppo’s Associate Vice President and President of IoT Business Franco Li, Oppo Watch 3 series will be the first smartwatch series ever to come with the newly launched Snapdragon W5 chipset, reported TalkAndroid.

Oppo Watch 3 to come with Snapdragon W5 chipset

The company official further revealed that there will be more than one model in this series and at least one of them will come with the W5 platform. The smartwatch series is expected to come with three models that will come with a square-shaped display and a high screen-to-body ratio. The smartwatches are likely to be available in black, silver, dark gray, and “light gold” colour variants. The smartwatch series is confirmed to debut in August this year.

As per the official statement, “The announcement of the latest Snapdragon W5 wearable platform will bring smart wearable technology to a new level. Oppo and Qualcomm Technologies have closely collaborated for a long time, creating new possibilities of product innovation together. The Oppo Watch 3 series will be launched in August. As the first smartwatch powered by Snapdragon W5 wearable platform, it will delight our users with better performance.”

Oppo Watch 3 series will be followed by Mobvoi’s upcoming TicWatch flagship smartwatch that is expected to launch in the coming months. This upcoming Mobvoi smartwatch, likely to be called TicWatch Pro 4 is expected to be the first smartwatch to be powered by the Snapdragon W5+ chipset. This information was revealed by Mobvoi CEO Zhifei Li.

For the unversed, Qualcomm has announced that its Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1 and W5 Gen 1 wearable platforms offer 50 percent longer battery life compared to the company’s Snapdragon Wear 4100+ platforms. Apart from this, these SoCs also offer twice the performance and features such as immersive interactive experiences, ultra-low power ambient experiences, and always-sensing health and fitness experiences than older wearables platforms.

On the software front, Qualcomm has confirmed that the Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1 and the Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 wearable platform will support Google’s Wear OS.

The post Oppo Watch 3 might be the first smartwatch to come the new Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 appeared first on BGR India.



from BGR India https://ift.tt/sOQejfi
via IFTTT
Email Post
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

add