Two months ago, Apple launched a race called 64-bit processors for mobile phones - to the masses. Yesterday, Qualcomm introduced its first 64-bit processor architecture ARM - model MSM8916 Snapdragon 410.
Judging by the index model is easy to understand that Qualcomm will promote 64-bit technology primarily in the lower and near middle segment. It cost up to $ 150. The target audience of such device - are residents of poor and developing countries, including the most populous of them, China and India. In these regions, Qualcomm is under serious pressure from the competition with the Chinese company MediaTeks. The inscription on the box advertising 64-bit processor will be a good incentive to buy smartphone platform of this manufacturer.
Over time, as Android will be able to work with 64-bit code, SoC with support new extensions will have certain advantages in some specific applications. This program may be related to the processing of massive data streams - video, audio, archive, face recognition system. It is interesting to note that, Qualcomm continues to move along the path of least resistance. In a series of 400 products Snapdragon developer combined elements of architecture ARM Cortex-7 and its own architecture Krait. In high SoC (600 and 800), the company is based only on proprietary architecture that supports ARM instruction set level. NEW - SoC Snapdragon 410 - also uses in its logic mixture architecture ARM Cortex-53 and elements of corporate design. This provided an opportunity to bring to market faster 64-bit SoC company. Deliveries of this decision is scheduled for the first half of 2014.
Other important features of SoC Snapdragon 410 can be considered as integrated broadband processors with support for all major standards LTE and 3G. To work with virtually all networks Snapdragon 410 shall complete only one RFID chip RF360. Also at the same time supports three global positioning systems: American, Chinese and Russian, and gives you the opportunity to create smartphones with three SIM cards. Composition SoC: four 64-bit kernel frequency 1.2-1.4 GHz, support for one 64-bit memory LPDDR2 / 3, 13-megapixel camera, graphics - Qualcomm Adreno 306. Production - 28-nm process.