Apple Watch Sequence 8 Options Similar CPU as Predecessors: Report

Apple Watch Sequence 8 was not too long ago launched alongside the Apple Watch SE (2nd Era) and the Apple Watch Extremely. All of the wearables are powered by the dual-core S8 system in a bundle (SiP). Now, as per identifier codes, the S8 chip within the newest smartwatch by Apple is alleged to characteristic the identical CPU because the S6 and S7 chips. Nonetheless, there might have been some adjustments to incorporate extra options resembling Emergency SOS and crash detection options. Apple’s not too long ago launched smartwatch fashions might be accessible for buy beginning September 16.

As per the identifier codes shared on Twitter, the CPU of Apple’s S8 SiP, which powers the Apple Watch Sequence 8, Apple Watch SE (2nd Era), and the Apple Watch Extremely, carries T8301 identifier. This is similar because the CPU within the S6 and S7 chips that debuted within the Apple Watch Sequence 6 and Apple Watch Sequence 7 fashions.

Nonetheless, it’s doubtless that Apple might have tinkered with the S8 SiP to assist new options resembling Emergency SOS and crash-detection in addition to sensors together with an accelerometer and a gyroscope. The truth is, the Apple Watch Extremely mannequin comes geared up with a depth gauge and water temperature sensor.

Within the case of the iPhone 14 and the iPhone 14 Plus, each of the corporate’s new handsets are powered by the identical Apple Bionic A15 SoC that additionally powered final 12 months’s fashions. Nonetheless, Apple boasts improved efficiency within the latest fashions as in comparison with final 12 months’s providing. The SoCs in iPhone 14 fashions have a 5-core GPU as in comparison with 4-core GPU in final 12 months’s providing.

The Apple Watch Sequence 8 are the ninth iteration within the firm’s smartwatch lineup and might be accessible in GPS and mobile fashions. Apple additionally launched the second technology of the Apple Watch SE as a successor to the reasonably priced mannequin that launched in 2020. The corporate additionally launched the Apple Watch Extremely that’s claimed to supply as much as 36 hours on a single cost, options an aerospace-grade titanium physique, supply dual-frequency assist for GPS algorithms, and comes with a brand new Motion button that may be programmed to carry out numerous capabilities, in accordance with the corporate.