If you're looking forward to picking up the first SmartWatch from a major Swiss watchmaker, it's going to cost you. The watch division of LVMH (TAG Heuer) has announced that it will start to sell its first SmartWatch this November, priced at $1400/€1260/£910. Back in January, they made it clear that TAG Heuer would need help with the technological aspects of a SmartWatch since producing such a timepiece is much different than making a traditional one. So TAG Heuer went out and partnered with Google and Intel. You'd be hard pressed to find two better tech companies to work with on such a project.
That's in the ballpark of lower-end quartz models from the watchmaker's Formula 1 line, but it makes even the $1,000 steel made Apple Watch seem like a relative bargain. That money will get you more than just a luxurious brand name, however. TAG Heuer estimates that the TAG Heuer device will last 40 hours on battery.
At present Intel offers two solutions suitable for chronographs: Intel Quark system-on-chip as well as Intel Curie module. The Quark features one Pentium [P54C] core, an LPDDR2 memory controller and a host of I/O capabilities. The Curie module (pictured below) announced in January integrates one Quark SoC, low-power integrated DSP sensor hub with a proprietary pattern matching accelerator, Bluetooth Low Energy, 6-axis combo sensor with accelerometer and gyroscope as well as battery charging circuitry (PMIC). It is highly likely that Curie will be used for TAG Heuer’s smart timepiece.
That's in the ballpark of lower-end quartz models from the watchmaker's Formula 1 line, but it makes even the $1,000 steel made Apple Watch seem like a relative bargain. That money will get you more than just a luxurious brand name, however. TAG Heuer estimates that the TAG Heuer device will last 40 hours on battery.
At present Intel offers two solutions suitable for chronographs: Intel Quark system-on-chip as well as Intel Curie module. The Quark features one Pentium [P54C] core, an LPDDR2 memory controller and a host of I/O capabilities. The Curie module (pictured below) announced in January integrates one Quark SoC, low-power integrated DSP sensor hub with a proprietary pattern matching accelerator, Bluetooth Low Energy, 6-axis combo sensor with accelerometer and gyroscope as well as battery charging circuitry (PMIC). It is highly likely that Curie will be used for TAG Heuer’s smart timepiece.
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