Apple made a oopsie. They leaked some inside stuff about the S11 chip. This chip is for the new 2025 Apple Watches – the Series 11, Ultra 3, and SE 3.
The big news?
It probably won’t make your watch much faster.
S11 Chip Uses Old Design
So what the leak shows?
The S11 chip has the same T8310 design inside. This is the same as the S9 and S10 chips in last year’s Series 9 and Series 10 watches.
Yeah, Apple does this a lot. Like the S6, S7, and S8 chips? All used same core tech too.
The S9 and S10 chips already got two “Sawtooth” speed cores. These are same as the powerful A16 chip in iPhone.
So even if its old now, its still super strong for a tiny watch.
Its a 64-bit two core chip.
Also has a 4 core Neural Engine. And second gen Ultra Wideband (UWB). And 64GB storage space.
Thats good.
Small Changes, Not Big Speed
The main brain is same.
But Apple might change other small things. Like for the S10 chip, Apple made it thinner.
So it took less room inside the watch. We might see same kind of small space saving tricks with S11 chip.
Because the S11 chip looks mostly same for 2025 watches, the real speed boost might come later.
Probably with the S12 chip expected for the 2026 models. Thats next year.
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Codenames Tell Us About Future
The leaked Apple code gave us names. Ultra 3 is N230. Series 11 is N227 (and N228 for cellular version).
But it also showed names for watches coming later!
Like Series 12 (N237, N238 cellular) and Ultra 4 (N240).
So yeah, Apple is planning ahead.
Coming Soon!
You will see the new Apple Watch Ultra 3, Apple Watch Series 11, and Apple Watch SE 3 soon.
Apple will show them at their big September event.
Yeah the S11 chip news means maybe no big speed jump. But we might still get cool new health things or maybe a new look. We see.
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