“When Apple announced the iPhone 5s would be powered by a new 64-bit processor, the A7, many responded with a shrug,” Serdar Yegulalp reports for InfoWorld.Conventional wisdom had it that 64-bitness in a mobile processor had no particular advantage.”
“But then the first real-world performance benchmarks came in, and soon most everyone changed their tune — including the manufacturers of chip sets for competing devices,” Yegulalp reports. “Skepticism about the value of 64-bit mobile devices could be seen when the IDG News Service’s Agam Shah talked to analysts earlier in September about the A7. Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research, dismissed the 64-bitness of the A7 as “marketing — the ability to say you’re the first to have it.” Forbes wasn’t impressed either, calling it all more of Steve Jobs’s famed “reality distortion field” at work.”
“But AnandTech decided to let the numbers speak for themselves,” Yegulalp reports. “The tech website ran its custom suite of browser benchmarks against the A7 and saw an average of a 44 percent increase in speed over the A6. The gains for the new processor were quite real, and… w
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I visited Android Authority…the lot of them are in HUGE DENIAL about this. Thoroughly convinced that its all BS and just a Marketing Gimmick. Unbelievable. The numbers are there, the product actually exist….
Until NoShame(sung) releases the Galaxy S5 with a 64-bit processor and 32-bit OS (with crappy skin).
Then they’ll have a collective Droidgasm.
Tribal behavior joined with ritual behavior joined with ignorant behavior joined with bad taste.
I always find it hilarious when such deliberately blind people show up here and rant at us for being kool-aid drinkers. Hand them a mirror.
Well, at least they can console themselves with the gold Galaxy S4 samsung announced today.
But it’s a tough decision between the brown screen or the pink screen, oh dear they will be so conflicted is that smoke coming out of their ears I see?
” … calling it all more of Steve Jobs’s famed “reality distortion field” at work … ” Steve was visionary and in tune with a reality ahead of most ppl’s limited awareness. He created reality, he brought his vision into materialization. No distortion. The distortion is other’s weak limited brains. But ppl just can’t seem to grasp facts, science and reality.
The new 64 bit A7 & future processors designed by Apple FOR Apple products will start a new beginning. Where? iOS 7 in the new & rumored iPad Pro. 😉
Wall Street doesn’t give a damn about Apple’s A7. It might as well be a 8088 as far as they’re concerned. Apple can’t even leverage the processor as a value item because everyone in the smartphone industry says it’s useless in a smartphone. There are very few people, except for a few processor engineers and professional bench-markers, think that the A7 is considered innovative. Everyone else thinks it’s just some underwhelming dual-core processor which Apple should have left out of the smartphone and put a larger display in its place. I’ve already seen the benchmarks and they look good to me but hardly anyone else in the industry is impressed or at least that’s what they’ve said.
Lately, it seems as though everything Apple does is considered unimpressive, disappointing or underwhelming. There’s a tough crowd out there. Apple’s share price doesn’t quite reflect some new beginning. It reflects same old, same old.
64bit = innovation. Everyone else will copy this whether or not Google will build a 64 bit Android is another story. I don,t even think this is possible but I’m sure Samsung has enough talent to add another layer to Android allow it to run on a 64 bit processor but what’s the point. Oh yeah, it’s the marketing literature.
Dear MDN: Again an appeal to EDIT your posts. This one has junk in it that everyone will notice. It’s easy to remove.
If MS came out with a 64 bit Win8 phone before Android then we would see Google in a world of hurt. This is a real possibility. They have Win8 64 bit, the employes, and the cash to do it. MS desperately needs to justify the Nokia deal. All the talk would be about Apple Vs. MS. This could kill Android’s market share, and leave Google advertising to late adopters.
Android OS has an awful lot of momentum so I don’t think it would die overnight. Most vendors are putting out Android smartphones because the cost is so low to them, they’re not going to stop after investing their money into the hardware. I doubt many consumers care one way or another what processor is in a smartphone as long as it works OK for them. Microsoft/Nokia will have to try to match prices to Android smartphones and it’s going to be a race to the bottom where the winner still doesn’t get much of a prize except more market share.
Maybe Michael Dell could come run that race for them; he’s got a lot of experience at it… 🙂
It also fits well with everything else Apple does that is 64-bit except iTunes 64 for Windows which for some reason still is a 32-bit program despite the lable.