The Apple Watch improves year on year with each new model that Apple introduces, but there is one fact that remains somewhat camouflaged and must be emphasized: the year-on-year improvements in its chips are very discreet. The Apple Watch Series 4 was indeed a step up in terms of performance, but from this model onwards the specifications have hardly changed and therefore the performance remains the same.
That could change with the Apple Watch Series 9: Mark Gurman has reason to believe that in Cupertino have developed a new chip for their smartwatch, based on the A15 Bionic chip present in the iPhone 13. This would be the first significant change in the specifications of the Apple Watch for a long time.
A welcome and perhaps necessary change
Gurman revealed this clue not in his newsletter or in Bloomberg, but for the first time on a Discord server that the leaker opened a few days ago to discuss all the rumors around Apple with the community.
Taking the A15 Bionic as a starting point doesn’t mean we’re going to have typical iPhone performance on Apple Watch, of course. But we can think of more efficiency, more performance and less battery consumption. We can notice the change more in the autonomy and not in the speed of the device when opening applications.
It may also be a necessary improvement for the supposed new interface of watchOS 10 to work optimally. It is expected that there will be new elements which, although compatible with previous generations of the watch, require additional performance to be more fluid.
Although we will officially see watchOS 10 in the opening speech After WWDC 2023 on June 5, we won’t know anything about the Apple Watch Series 9 until Apple introduces them with the iPhone 15 in early September. It will be then when we see if Apple decides to show a new chip or not in these watches.
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