14 DAY TRIAL // Next year is expected to bring to the market a flurry of smartphones powered by 64-bit processors, the latest reports on the matter suggest.
Apparently, chip makers such as Qualcomm, Nvidia and Broadcom will all have 64-bit mobile CPUs available in the first half of the next year, a recent article on DigiTimes reads.
It is possible that the first smartphones to pack such processors will become official at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January 2014, though an official confirmation on this has yet to emerge.
The smartphone landscape has changed a lot during the past several years, and vendors are looking for the launch of more and more powerful devices, this being the main reason why said 64-bit processors will appeal to them.
Earlier this month, the first 8-core mobile CPU that can take advantage of all eight cores at the same time has become official from MediaTek, but it appears that the technology might not be as sought for as 64-bit CPUs.
Most probably, this is due to the fact that Apple has already launched a device packing such a processor, namely the iPhone 5s, and vendors out there are looking to catch up.
Chip makers such as Qualcomm, Nvidia and Broadcom are said to have already changed their product roadmap for the next year, so as to bring 64-bit processor to the market as soon as possible.
What remains to be seen, however, is whether mobile operating systems will scale well on the new technology.
According to electronista, mobile phone makers might actually start touting the 64-bit capabilities of their devices even before the platform loaded on their phones will indeed offer full support for it.
The same has happened with Samsung’s Android-based Galaxy S2, which landed on shelves with a dual-core CPU before the OS actually included support for multi-core processors.