Android Wear Dying? Qualcomm smartwatch processor has not changed in two years

While most of the flagship processor chips have a one-year change cycle, the Wear 2100 welcomes two years of age in a week's time.The processor for the Android Wea platform was released in February 2016, but last year Qualcomm did not release a successor processor and it seems that Qualcomm has no intention of launching follow-up products, which seems to mean that Qualcomm has already given up the smart watch market.

For the healthy processor market, Qualcomm is no harm.The Qualcomm felt that the meager profit to give up the smart watch market, all Android Wear manufacturers can also buy high quality processors from other suppliers to continue to meet market demand.

However, the crux of the problem lies in the current processor market is very unhealthy, Qualcomm alone dominated the smart watch market, once it is not interested in providing a new processor means that such as Google, LG, Huawei, Motorola, Asus and other manufacturers in the Paralyzed state, unable to find the right processor supply in the market.

Android Wear is not the perfect smartwatch operating system in itself, but the main issues are hardware such as size, design, speed and battery life, all of which are processor-intensive-OEMs have no new options since 2016, Therefore, Android smart watches can be said to have stagnated.

To make matters worse, the Wear 2100 is not a good enough processor, based on a 28-nanometer process, and the flagship handset processor for 2016 is the Snapdragon 820 in a 14nm process, while the handset in the 28nm process The processor also dates back to the 2013 Snapdragon 800/801.