Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says that the Apple Watch Series 9, due to be introduced and released later this year, could be powered by a new S9 chip. The latter would show a bigger improvement in performance than seen with the S8 chip used on last year’s Apple Watch Series 8 timepieces. The S8 chip also powers the premium Apple Watch Ultra model. Gurman made his comments on the Discord channel for his “Power On” weekly newsletter.
If Apple releases an Apple Watch Ultra 2 this year, it will be powered by the much improved S9 chip
With the S9 chip running the show, the Series 9 Apple Watch models will probably run faster and more efficiently than the Series 8 models. On his Discord channel, Gurman said that the new 2023 models are “due for the updated SoC.” Apple said last year that the S8 chip runs 20% faster than the S7. Gurman is saying that the S9 will have an even larger percentage increase in performance over the S8.
