Coming Soon: Android Wearables Powered By Ingenic Newton Chip

Even as Android wearables become the ever increasing talk of the town, a new technology is set to power the plethora of devices having the OS under the hood, and it's going to do it with panache. Ingenic Newton chips will be the first choice to power the Android wearables in the future primarily because the chip can achieve power consumption figures of around 4mW in standby to 260mW at peak. An Ingenic-powered device can easily last for more than 30 hours on a single charge. Impressive, right?

The chip features a 1 GHz MIPS based CPU, a 2D graphics engine, hardware video codecs, multi-standard VPU that offers 720p at 30fps playback. Connectivity options include Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi, NFC and FM. It comes with 256KB L2 Cache RAM and up to 3 GB DDR3/DDR2/LPDDR RAM + eMMC. At 21.6mm x 38.4mm, the chip is the size of a quarter dollar coin making it an apt choice for small and portable wearable devices. The Newton chip is based on the Android certified technology and consists of a triple-axis gyroscope/accelerometer/magnetometer, pressure, humidity and temperature sensors and an LCD/EPD display with TP and backlight.

Prominent applications range from home appliances, wearable devices, security and consumer electronics, industrial control to healthcare.

Tech giant Google earlier entered the wearable devices domain with a specified OS platform, which was much needed for wearable products. It launched the Android Wear that is a version of Android OS, made exclusively for wearable devices.