Apple upped the game with the release of the iPhone 5S and its brand new 64-bit processor. Today, as a response to Apple`s A7 64-bit processor, Samsung`s mobile business head JK Shin has said
to the Korea Times
that Samsung`s next smartphones will feature a 64-bit CPU too.
The A7 with its over 1 billion transistors, massive graphics performance and the use of the 64-bit OS 7 certainly made many Android smartphone manufacturers quite uncomfortable. JK Shine said to the Korean Times that Samsung is aware of Apple`s ambitions in China, adding that a device with such a chip would come "not in the shortest time," but that "our next smartphones will have 64-bit processing capability."
Samsung`s next-generation smartphones could use the ARMv8 64-bit architecture that ARM has been promoting for quite some time now. Samsung is a prominent licensee of ARM`s offerings so this seems like a good chance to release something 64-bit fast. But when and if Samsung will use the ARMv8 or a totally different processor is not clear at this point.
64-bit mobile wars then? Most probably yes!
