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  • Mobile Market to Follow Apple’s 64-bit A7 Processor

    Mobile Market to Follow Apple’s 64-bit A7 Processor

    The iPhone 5S was a disappointment for many Apple fans. Though the device undoubtedly contains better hardware than the iPhone 5, the iPhone 5S was more of an incremental improvement than the yearly leap iPhone lovers had become accustomed to.

    The biggest change in the latest iPhone was the implementation of Apple’s new 64-bit A7 processor. Though it is still unclear why a 64-bit mobile processor might be needed for an iPhone, the hardware does future-proof the iPhone line somewhat and provide direction in a market where Apple design still sets trends.

    Market research firm ABI Research today confirmed that mobile makers will be once again following Apple with new 64-bit processors of their own. The firm’s new report predicts that more than 182 million 64-bit mobile processors will be shipped during 2014. Of these, only 20% will be found in Android, meaning Apple will sustain its huge early lead in the market. ABI estimates that more than 1.12 billion 64-bit processor-equipped smartphones and tablets will ship in 2018, a majority of all devices predicted to ship that year.

    Though chip manufacturers such as Intel, Qualcomm, and Nvidia have all announced 64-bit mobile processors, ABI pins the release of these new processors to the release of the next revision of Android. This could come late in the year, explaining the low market share estimates for 64-bit Android smartphones.

    As with Apple’s A7 both manufacturers and consumers are not quite sure of the benefit of 64-bit processors in smartphones and tablets. That won’t, however, prevent marketing departments from portraying the hardware as the biggest leap since 4G data.

    “A number of early adopters will initially use 64-bit as a catchy marketing strategy to easily communicate differentiation using ‘more-is-better’ adage previously used for promoting performance in the multi-core processor race,” said Malik Saadi, practice director at ABI. “This is not to say that 64-bit processing will not add any significant value to the Android sphere but the benefits of this technology will become apparent only when its implementation over Android matures,”

  • Source No Longer Claims To Have Leaked ‘iPhone 5S’ Motherboard Images [Updated]

    Update: iOSDoc, which first published these photos has now come out and said they found out they are fake. More from them here.

    Every so often, we see sources indicating that they have leaked images of Apple’s new devices, and the iPhone 5S (or iPhone 6, or whatever you want to call it at this point) is no different. Obviously, they’re not always legit, so a grain of salt is always required.

    Recently, some assembly line photos showed an alleged look at the device, but were later reported to be “likely an iPhone 5 clone”.

    Now, iOSDoc claims to have received some new photos from a “very reliable source,” showing an A7 quad-core CPU and GPU, and 2GB of RAM.

    Alleged leaked motherboard photo

    iOSDoc says:

    The iPhone 5S will come with a new quad-core Apple A7 processor, clocked at 1.2Ghz and iOS 7. The phone’s design will probably be very much similar to the iPhone 5, getting only hardware and software improvements. iOS 7 will also come with a highly improved Siri, able to “do a lot of new cool stuff.” Unfortunately our source didn’t want to speak very much about this aspect.

    The new A7 SoC was to be expected, but we didn’t anything until now about the amount of cores or clock rate. It should be much faster than Apple’s dual-core A6, which is clocked at 1.3Ghz. A7 will also feature the PowerVR quad-core SGX554MP4 graphics processor, also featured in the 4th generation iPad. This amount of power will definitely be able to widen the possibilities of gaming, but should get us worried about battery life.

    Obviously we can can’t confirm the legitimacy of the image, so take it as you will.