According to analyst agency ABI
Research, a large number of 64-bit mobile devices will likely start
shipping in 2015. The very first batch of them, however, could appear
by the second half of this year, running on Intel's 64-bit Atom
“Merrifield” and "Moorefield" processors. This prediction goes nicely with the rumor
about Google introducing a Nexus 8 tablet with 64-bit Intel hardware
and a retooled Android this July.
Furthermore, ABI estimates that 182
million 64-bit mobile chips will be shipped by the end of 2013, with
20% of them going towards Android device manufacturers. By 2018,
though, 64-bit processor shipments for smartphones and tablets could
reach 1.2 billion in total, with 60% going into Android devices, 30%
into Apple devices, and up to 10% in Windows / Windows Phone devices.
At present iOS and Windows 8 (which
could also be considered a mobile platform, as it runs on x64-powered
tablets) are fully 64-bit compliant, while 64-bit Android
distributions only exist for x86 devices (thanks to Intel's efforts). It's up to Google to
introduce Android with full 64-bit support, which is expected in the
next milestone version of the platform. Currently, the Android
open-source community is working on 64-bit Android tools, while a
64-bit version of the Chrome browser is already in the works as well.
Although the Android kernel has had 64-bit computing support for a
long time, Google have plenty of porting and optimizing to. You can
read more about this in this article.
At present, the appeal of 64-bit
processing is largely from a marketing standpoint, but this will
change. It's inarguable that 64-bit processors in mobile devices will
bring faster multimedia and processing capabilities, in addition to
RAM memory larger than 4GB.
source: ABI Research via Mac
World
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