In a while, Qualcomm's Wear 2100 flagship chip for the Android Wear platform is in its second birthday, but the birthday is embarrassing, as so far the Wear 2100 is still the only flagship Smart Watch processing by Qualcomm Chip - Qualcomm has not updated Wear series chip for two years and it seems that Qualcomm is not going to launch follow-up products, Qualcomm intends to give up the meager profit smart watch chip market yet?
Without Qualcomm, OEMs can buy high-quality processor chips from other chip suppliers, but the key to the problem is that the current Smart watch market has been stagnant.In the field of smart watches, Apple's Apple Watch a dominance, sales accounted for more than half of global sales of smart watches.In the field of chips, in addition to Apple's own research and development of processor chips, other manufacturers want Get smartwatch chip, optional only Qualcomm.An exclusive Qualcomm means that if Qualcomm to give up the smart watch chip market, then Google, Huawei, LG and other manufacturers of smart watches will be at a standstill - they have no way Find a suitable supplier other than Qualcomm.
To make matters worse, the Wear 2100 itself is not a good enough smart watch processing chip.In the face of powerful low-power Apple W2 dual-core processor, Wear 2100 uses the backward and 28nm process technology, performance and power Consumed in two years has become very weak.
So Qualcomm quit, Android Wear really cool yet? It seems so.
