[6ren]

It uses an old OMAP4430, also in the Samsung Galaxy 2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMAP#OMAP_4

As chips get faster, wearable computing will benefit more than smartphones, because (eg) an iPhone 5 is more powerful than a smartphone can utilize (and more powerful than even a desktop needs to be, for most mainstream tasks.)

[ironchief]

For most use cases, current hardware is sufficient. This will have a profound effect on wearable devices as we use exponential improvement to make devices smaller and more battery efficient rather than faster. This is exactly what Intel and Apple did with the new Macbook Air. They made it slightly faster, but much more power efficient.

If you look into the future and imagine that every 1.5 years Google Glass will half in size instead of getting faster, it doesn't take the long before it's the size of a dime (~4.5 years).

That's why Glass matters: it's just the beginning.

Short blog on Medium about this: https://medium.com/adventures-in-consumer-technology/74c201b...

[joezydeco]

I don't know if I would classify the OMAP4 as "old", unless you're Apple and spinning Cortex-A cores on your own silicon.

The OMAP4 is really no different than the Sitara AM335 being used in stuff like Beaglebone Black, with the exception of the video DSP. And I can see why Google would want that DSP on board to do things like hardware video encoding.

[miahi]

The chip is taken from the specs, you cannot see it in the photos.

[lgeek]

I think the memory is mounted on top of the SoC as a package on package.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_on_package