Android OEMs to likely cash in on Apple’s 64-bit ‘marketing gimmick’

[Guest Chris Smith]

A new note from ABI Research reveals that 64-bit mobile processors will dominate the mobile landscape by 2018, when such processors will grab 55% of the market. Criticized when Apple first unveiled it, and deemed to be nothing else than a "marketing gimmick" by Qualcomm – until the company later rescinded those comments – the A7 chip inside the iPhone 5s and iPad Air is only the first of a plethora of 64-bit mobile chips that will power devices off all shapes and sizes in the coming years.

 

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