Chip designer Qualcomm has posted a teaser about the introduction of a new soc for smartwatches. The latest one, the Snapdragon Wear 4100, came out two years ago. Soc will probably end up mainly on Wear OS watches.

Qualcomm posted the joke With the text “The clock is ticking for something big”, a clear reference to smartwatches. In addition, the video clip shows the word “Wear What Matters”. This is a reference to Wear OS, the operating system for Google’s smartwatches. The video also shows the case of the watch.

The new version of Wear OS was released last year in Galaxy Watch 4 From Samsung, equipped with Exynos W920-soc from Samsung itself. It’s much more modern and faster than Qualcomm’s Wear 4100. There are few rumors about the successor to the Wear 4100, except rumor from february It will be 4nm-soc with the same processor cores and clock speeds as the Wear 4100.

The Snapdragon soc for smartwatches has essentially ended up in a myriad of smartwatches from fashion brands in recent years, which use a host of standard components. Mobvoi also uses socs in its TicWatch watches. The Pixel Watch will be powered by Google On older Exynos†

Qualcomm has switched to new names for its smartphone socs, such as Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. In this line, the new soc might be called Snapdragon Wear Gen 1. If the Wear-socs designation stays the same, it will be Wear 5100.