Google Pixel smartwatch costs $123 to make

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New Delhi. According to a new report, the cost of building an LTE-capable Google Pixel Watch is estimated to be $123, a huge jump from previous Fitbit smartwatches.

Samsung not only provides the highly integrated main chipset, but also supplies the LTE transceiver and other paired components, which collectively account for approximately 20 percent of the total bill of materials (BOM) cost.

According to Counterpoint Research, “BOE, which is the exclusive supplier of the smartwatch’s custom 1.2-inch-diameter OLED display, received more than 14 percent of the total cost to come in second in terms of cost contribution.”

Based on their analysis, the main processor is the Exynos 9110, manufactured at Samsung Foundry’s 10nm process node.

The co-processor is NXP’s MIMXRT595S. It’s an Arm Cortex-M33-based MCU with DSP and GPU cores.

The combined cost of the two processors and the Kingston 32GB plus 2GB of POP memory accounts for about 27 percent of the total BOM cost, the report said.

Another major functional block of the Google Pixel Watch is the 1.2-inch ‘always-on’ OLED display.

In addition, the heart rate monitoring system includes Texas Instruments’ analog front end (AFE) and three sets of infrared LEDs and photodetectors, which form the back of the ECG feature, the report added.

“Through deeper collaboration with Samsung, Google is likely to empower its next-generation Pixel Watch with a more powerful, integrated, intelligent and secure processing platform.”(IANS)

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