Samsung’s next Galaxy smartphones will have 64-bit processors, J.K. Shin, head of Samsung Mobile Communications, reportedly has promised. Samsung is apparently taking its cue from Apple’s launch of the iPhone 5s, the first 64-bit-processor smartphone, earlier this week. A 64-bit processor can grab larger pieces of data and process them more quickly than 32-bit CPUs, and it is more power-efficient, noted Carl Howe, a research vice president at the Yankee Group. Apple has updated its development environment for 64-bit architectures, he noted.
Samsung's next Galaxy smartphones will have 64-bit processors, J.K. Shin, head of Samsung Mobile Communications, reportedly has promised. Samsung is apparently taking its cue from Apple's launch of the iPhone 5s, the first 64-bit-processor smartphone, earlier this week. A 64-bit processor can grab larger pieces of data and process them more quickly than 32-bit CPUs, and it is more power-efficient.
A 64-bit chip is easy - will Samsung simply program in a 64-bit benchmarking trigger like they do on their phones? But nothing else in the phone runs at 64-bits?
Yea, Google will have to rewrite Android without breaking the OS on the 18,000 versions running out there already. We can expect the flat look in 2 years and the 64-bit Android by 2020. Of course, by then Apple will be on their 128-bit chip but now taht Google does not get peeks into the Apple labs, on their own really means on their own.
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Samsung to Keep Up With the 64-Bit Joneses
Posted by: Richard Adhikari September 14, 2013 05:00 AMSamsung’s next Galaxy smartphones will have 64-bit processors, J.K. Shin, head of Samsung Mobile Communications, reportedly has promised. Samsung is apparently taking its cue from Apple’s launch of the iPhone 5s, the first 64-bit-processor smartphone, earlier this week. A 64-bit processor can grab larger pieces of data and process them more quickly than 32-bit CPUs, and it is more power-efficient, noted Carl Howe, a research vice president at the Yankee Group. Apple has updated its development environment for 64-bit architectures, he noted.
Yea, Google will have to rewrite Android without breaking the OS on the 18,000 versions running out there already. We can expect the flat look in 2 years and the 64-bit Android by 2020. Of course, by then Apple will be on their 128-bit chip but now taht Google does not get peeks into the Apple labs, on their own really means on their own.