S6 Chip

While last year’s Apple Watch Series 5 included a new S5 system-on-a-chip (SoC) processor, it didn’t really offer any significant boost over the S4 that had come the year before. That’s not the case this year, however, with the new S6 chip in the Apple Watch Series 6 featuring a high-performance dual-core design based on the A13 Bionic found in the iPhone 11.

Apple promises that this will deliver performance that’s up to 20 percent faster than the previous-generation Apple Watch. Not that we found our Apple Watch slow to begin with, but the important point is that this should offer more power for the various sensors and algorithms to do their work when it comes to health and fitness tracking.