Yes it pretty much is useless for mobile, but 64-bit
processing as become a buzzword thanks to Apple when they announced the iPhone
5S would support it. Shortly after, Samsung said it’s coming to their
phones next year. At that point one had to wonder if Samsung was
going to do this on their own or if they knew the Android software would
support it very soon. It’s probably the latter based on the image above.
It was taken at the Intel Developers Forum and posted on
Reddit by shuriken. You can clearly see “64-bit” so
the theory is that Google is probably adopting it very soon, and most likely
Kit Kat. Now I should point out that Intel’s latest Bay Trail chips
support 64-bit so this doesn’t necessarily imply Google is going to add it to Kit
Kat. Intel could just be saying that the chip supports it. ARM has also
announced the Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57, which both support 64-bit. Based on
all of this, it’s probably a safe assumption that the Android OS will support
it, if not this year, probably next year.
Again, I have to reiterate that 64-bit processing is
nothing more than a fluff spec that is pretty much worthless for mobile devices
until they reach 4GB of RAM. It very well could mean something by late 2014,
but for now, no need to worry about it.
source: Reddit
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