14 DAY TRIAL // South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is determined to strengthen its leading position on the smartphone market, and the company will launch handsets with 64-bit processors for that.
Samsung mobile business head Shin Jong-kyun confirmed that, only two days after Apple announced its iPhone 5S smartphone with a 64-bit CPU inside.
“Not in the shortest time. But yes, our next smartphones will have 64-bit processing functionality,” Shin said, Korea Times notes in a recent article.
Recently, Samsung announced another enhancement for its mobile processors, in the form of a Heterogeneous Multi-Processing update destined for the Exynos 5 Octa core ARM chip.
No specific info has been provided on which future Samsung handsets will receive the 64-bit processors, but we can expect more to be unveiled in the beginning of the next year. Stay tuned for more on this.