Snapdragon Wear 5100 May Not Be A Major Upgrade
According to the report, the Snapdragon Wear 5100 is a quad-core processor with four ARM Cortex-A53 cores. That’s contrary to what the initial report suggested last month: four Cortex-A73 cores. If the new report is true, then the upcoming wearable chip from Qualcomm may not provide a major boost in performance over its predecessor, the Snapdragon Wear 4100. The latter also features four Cortex-A53 CPU cores. Qualcomm might build the Snapdragon Wear 5100 on a more advanced process node than a 12nm process used for last year’s chip....