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posted by LaminatorX on Monday February 24 2014, @12:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the Can-I-get-some-dips-with-that? dept.

Rashek writes:

"Intel and Qualcomm just announced their roadmaps for mobile System on a Chip at this year's Mobile World Congress.

Intel presented performance numbers of their Merrifield SoC, a dual-core Silvermont based SoC that's effectively the phone version of Bay Trail, with some carefully chosen benchmarks that compared it to Apple's A7 SoC and Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 series. Meanwhile, Qualcomm revealed future 64-bit Snapdragons for its mid-tier Snapdragon series. The Snapdragon 610 and 615 will arrive in Android smartphones in Q4 of this year and are four and eight core implementations of ARM's Cortex A53."

 
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  • (Score: 1) by MachineShedFred on Monday February 24 2014, @02:48PM

    by MachineShedFred (1656) on Monday February 24 2014, @02:48PM (#6049)

    Of course Qualcomm is going to kick 64-bit parts out the door. And I'm sure that OEMs will buy them and use them in their designs. Unfortunately, we'll still be loading 32-bit Android onto them, because Google hasn't said a single word otherwise.

    That really is a marketing gimmick.

  • (Score: 1) by threedigits on Tuesday February 25 2014, @04:24AM

    by threedigits (607) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @04:24AM (#6482)

    I'm not sure they are meant for cell phones. Most probably for tabletops, laptops and tablets.

  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Tuesday February 25 2014, @05:45AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @05:45AM (#6512) Journal
    Google has announced that 64-bit support is coming to Android. Unfortunately, they've also just switched to Art, which does an insane number of pointer to int32_t casts and so they've got a huge amount of work ahead of them.
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