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TECH T@LK

Galaxy Watch 4 Snapdragon 8 Gen 1+ is said to

to get Google Assistant this be announced next week

summer ualcomm, the global innova-

tor in wireless technology, in-
fter almost a year of waiting, Qtroduced Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
Samsung executive vice pres- at the end of last year. It turned out to
Aident Patrick Chomet finally be the company’s best performing mo-
announced the long-awaited feature bile platform to date. Up until now, al-
of Google Assistant, which is sched- most all major smartphone companies
uled to arrive this summer. Chomet have launched their flagship models
writes that Google Assistant on Wear with this integrated chip. Since the
OS 3 will enable “faster and more start of this month, Snapdragon 8 Gen
natural voice interactions” as well as 1+, an upgraded version of Snapdrag-
the ability to look up quick answers on 8 Gen 1, has now appeared in a source from TSMC unlike the cur-
while on the go. He also noted that it series of rumours. According to GSM rent SD 8 Gen 1 from Samsung. The
would be possible to control Spotify Arena, it is reported that the launch main difference between the two
with Google Assistant on the watch. is taking place next Friday on May chipsets may be in the GPU division,
As per The Verge, a big reason why and assistants they could use. Apart 20. In addition to the flagship chipset, which improves the performance
Samsung opted to work with Google from announcing the Pixel Watch, it Qualcomm is expected to launch of new chips, GSM Arena reports.
to create a unified Wear OS 3 plat- is also noted that other Google ser- its Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chipset. The CPU is expected to remain un-
form was the Google Play Store. Sam- vices would also arrive on the Wear If the rumours are true, there changed from SD 8 Gen1 with 3GHz
sung’s smartwatches had historically OS platform, which includes Google might be a larger number of an- Cortex X2, 3 Cortex A710 power
been a way for it to push its ecosystem Home and Google Wallet. Although nouncements from smartphone units and 4 Cortex A510 cores for
of products and services, including its the exact date of its arrival is not manufacturers confirming new de- efficiency. Interestingly, Motorola is
voice assistant Bixby. The promise of known yet, it is speculated that the vices with the latest Qualcomm expected to be one of the first manu-
Wear OS 3 was that Android users Google Assistant would arrive toward chipsets. The new SD 8 Gen 1+ facturers to use the new chip in their
would get a greater say in which apps summer’s end. (codenamed SM8475) is expected to Edge X30 phones.

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