There will be more 64bit processors in smartphones and tablets. That says ARM, the company behind the eponymous line of processors. Manufacturers go faster than expected to work with 64bit processors.
While ARM previously expected that the 64bit version of the ARM architecture for the first time only in use in, for example, servers, companies such as Qualcomm, Marvell and MediaTek is excited to work with 64bit soc’s and they come on the market with a lot of processors based on the 64-bit ARMv8 architecture, says the company in a note on its quarterly results. Smartphones would also not converted 32bit code faster to perform with a 64bit processor because of the updates in the architecture.
Meanwhile, the ARM forty licenses for the use of the ARMv8-a architecture is provided, in the last quarter, five licenses added to that number to reach, though the case concerned only one of those five a license for a manufacturer of mobile devices; the other four were for network, hpc and automotive applications.
Many of those socs are also presented: Qualcomm has the Snapdragon 808, 810, 610 and 410 are presented, all on ARM’s Cortex A53-micro-architecture; the 810 and 808 are the Cortex A53 cores linked to Cortex A57 cores. MediaTek has made its first 64bit soc is also presented.
Although ARM it does not say, it is obvious that the acceleration in the development of 64bit socs for smartphones by Apple. The iPhone 5s turned out in september to the surprise of many other companies first smartphone an ARM-64bit-soc on board, something Apple during the presentation, much emphasis is laid. The first Android phones with 64bit soc’s are expected this autumn appear.
