Apple Announces A7, World's First 64-bit Smartphone SoC
by Anand Lal Shimpi on September 10, 2013 1:36 PM EST- Posted in
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- iPhone 5S
Apple just announced the iPhones 5S featuring the A7 SoC, which is the world's first consumer ARM based SoC with 64-bit support. We're likely talking about an updated version of Apple's Swift microprocessor with ARMv8 support.
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KPOM - Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - link
I'm guessing this is more about the future. Get developers writing in 64-bit APIs and in a year or two when we start seeing iPhones and/or iPads with 4+ GB of RAM we'll actually have applications that can take advantage of it.