Analyst talks MediaTek Helio X30, Kirin 960 and Snapdragon 830 all at once

Artemis Fowl was a book I never read while in school, but you’ll be reading a lot about a certain “Artemis” in a bit.It’s the codename to ARM’s new 10nm-based mobile processor that’s to replace the Cortex-A72. The A72 is the two-core powerhouse that tops the ten-core packages that are MediaTek’s Helio X20 and X25 chipsets. But as we’re already talking about the Helio X30, we’re ...

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When will Android support 64-bit chips?

We’ve already talked about the advantages and disadvantages of 64-bit versus 32-bit when it comes to smartphones and tablets. To recap, 64-bit should be faster and enable the inclusion of more RAM as compared to 32-bit, but the OS and apps will need some fairly heavy work before they’ll be able to take advantage of the advancements. Due to that, processor manufactures, app developers, and OS authors find themselves in the classic “chicken or the egg” conundrum: you can’t have one without the other. ...

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