After three generations of Apple Watch equipped with more or less the same SoC, Apple would see things big for its Watch Series 9. According to Mark Gurman, the firm would install a chip directly derived from the iPhone for the first time.
Expected this fall, probably at the same time as the iPhone 15 and 15 Pro, the future Apple Watch Series 9 would be equipped with a chip originally developed for the iPhone. According to Mark Gurman, the next connected watch from Apple would be armed with a processor based on the A15 Bionic, originally designed for the iPhone 13.
If what the Bloomberg journalist claims in his PowerOn newsletter is true, this would be a small revolution for the Apple Watch. It had so far been content with very low consumption chips designed specifically for it – and used in some cases on the HomePod.
An iPhone processor soon in the Apple Watch?
This change would be all the more important since, for three years, the Apple Watch have been recycling more or less the same chip, with few innovations in the key. The Apple Watch Series 8 is thus equipped with an Apple S8 SoC: a barely redesigned Apple S7… itself based on the Apple S6 of the Watch Series 6, marketed in 2020. This technological stagnation would end with the arrival on the Apple Watch Series 9 of a processor inspired by the A15 Bionic – a chip exploited over the months on many Apple devices (iPhone 13 / 13 Pro, iPhone SE3, iPad mini 6, iPhone 14 “classic”, Apple Watch TV 2022).
Note at this stage that we do not know what this transition will mean precisely for the Apple Watch Series 9, but it is a safe bet that it will provide more performance and better energy efficiency to the future connected tocante of the Cupertino giant. Unless there is a complete design change for the Series 9, and for obvious reasons of size and preservation of autonomy, it is on the other hand a safe bet that this version of the A15 does not exploit all the capabilities of the original chip.
It remains to be seen when Apple could tell us more. Logically, the firm will present watchOS 10 at the next WWDC, expected on June 5, but it is difficult to say whether this new hardware will also be discussed.
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