The new Samsung Exynos W1000 SoC should be a significant improvement over the dual-core 5nm W930, and, as detailed by Samsung, uses company's own 3nm GAA process with fan-out panel-level packaging (FOPLP), promising small form factor and better heat dissipation, as well as system in a package (SiP), which integrates the power management circuit and embedded package on package (ePoP), which mounts DRAM and NAND flash memory directly on the SoC.

Specification-wise, the Samsung W1000 gets a single Cortex-A78 big core ticking at 1.6GHz and a little cluster of four Cortex-A55 cores working at up to 1.5GHz. The SoC also gets the Mali-G68 MP2 GPU, yet to be yet-to-be-unveiled amount of 16Gb LPDDR5 memory and 32GB of eMMC storage. Performance-wise, the new Samsung W1000 should be up to 3.4x and 3.7x faster in single- and multi-core tasks, compared to the W930.

The SoC supports qHD (960x540) 640x640 resolution displays, integrates LTE Cat.4 (150Mbps DL and 75Mbps UL), and GNSS, and the rest of the connectivity, including 802.11n WiFi and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE).

The new Samsung W1000 SoC will power the upcoming Galaxy Watch 7 and the Galaxy Watch 7 Ultra, and Samsung might squeeze it into some other devices as well, and we expect more details at the Unpacked event on July 10th.