Leaked S11 Chip Details Reveal No Major Performance Upgrades for 2025 Apple Watches

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The upcoming Apple Watch Series 11, Apple Watch Ultra 3, and Apple Watch SE 3 volition person an updated S11 strategy successful bundle (SiP), but it whitethorn not bring overmuch successful the mode of processor show improvements.

Apple accidentally leaked immoderate interior accusation astir the upcoming chip, and it turns retired it volition person the aforesaid T8310 architecture arsenic the S9 and S10 chips successful the Series 9 and Series 10 Apple Watch models.

It's not antithetic for Apple to usage the aforesaid architecture crossed aggregate versions of the S-series chips for the Apple Watch. The S6, S7, and S8 chips each had the aforesaid halfway technology.

The S9 and S10 chips usage 2 "Sawtooth" show cores similar the A16 Bionic chip, truthful portion it is older technology, it's inactive a batch of powerfulness for a wrist-worn device. It's a 64-bit dual-core processor with a 4-core Neural Engine, second-generation Ultra Wideband (UWB) support, and 64GB retention space.

Though the underlying exertion is the same, Apple could marque different tweaks. With the S10, for example, Apple redesigned the spot with a thinner illustration truthful it would instrumentality up little abstraction wrong the watch.

With the S11 spot acceptable to enactment mostly the aforesaid successful the 2025 Apple Watch models, it's apt Apple's upcoming S12 spot for 2026 volition usage a caller microarchitecture with show improvements.

Though Apple's codification lone gave america penetration into the Ultra 3 and Series 11, determination were codenames for aboriginal devices arsenic well: