A modified Apple Watch S-series chip

Bloomberg's Gurman reports the N50 uses a modified Apple Watch S-series chip, low-power by design, that handles local sensing and always-on AI triggers while the glasses offload most processing to the iPhone.

Apple's rumored smart glasses are reportedly built around a modified version of the chip Apple uses in Apple Watch, a processor designed for low power draw in a tiny, always-on device. Strapping a watch chip into glasses frames makes sense: it's small, it runs cool, and Apple already knows how to squeeze useful features out of it.