Samsung has launched an all-in-one chip for the wearables market, allowing manufacturers to monitor five biometric signals simultaneously, without the need for any external processor parts, meaning the resultant chip is up to a quarter of the size of regular wearable processors. To speed product development and better understand Samsung’s new Bio-Processor, several wearable reference platforms are now available to demonstrate various uses cases. The new chip, which was announced at CES in Las Vegas on Monday, will be available later this year and can track four different types of biometric data, including fingerprints, iris, face shape, voice patterns, and even Samsung is likely to license the chip to third parties, and it is said it will be available in consumer devices in early 2016.
Samsung has launched an all-in-one chip for the wearables market, allowing manufacturers to monitor five biometric signals simultaneously, without the need for any external processor parts, meaning the resultant chip is up to a quarter of the size of regular wearable processors. The new chip, which was announced at CES in Las Vegas on Monday, will be available later this year and can track four different types of biometric data, including fingerprints, iris, face shape, voice patterns, and even Samsung is likely to license the chip to third parties, and it is said it will be available in consumer devices in early 2016.