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Samsung waiting for Android 64-bit

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Last year <a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/02/samsung-waiting-for-android-64-bit.html" target="_blank">Apple</a> had launched a 64-bit mobile processor,
 the first of its kind in the mobile industry. Since then, a number of 
other chip makers have put their 64-bit ambitions into overdrive to keep
 pace including Samsung.<br />

The Korean tech giant expects to join the 64-bit race later this year. During a recent <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank">chat</a>
 with CNET at <a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/02/samsung-waiting-for-android-64-bit.html" target="_blank">Mobile</a> World Congress, Kyushik Hong, vice president of 
marketing for Samsung's system LSI business, said 64-bit was very 
important in the sense that there is a real demand regardless of whether
 or not it is needed.<br />
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As such,<a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/02/samsung-waiting-for-android-64-bit.html" target="_blank"> Samsung </a>is actively working on it and their chip will be ready
 whenever the operating systems and ecosystem (Android) moves to 64-bit.
 Apple enjoys an advantage in this area as they control both the 
operating system and the design of their processors. Crafting the 
hardware and software under the same roof means they don’t have to wait 
on one side to “catch up” to the other.<br />

Apple and Samsung aren’t the only ones invested in 64-bit. Late last 
year, Qualcomm moved to 64-bit with the announcement of the mid-range <a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/02/samsung-waiting-for-android-64-bit.html" target="_blank">Snapdragon</a> 401 SoC and earlier this week, the company revealed two more 64-bit chips: the <a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/02/samsung-waiting-for-android-64-bit.html" target="_blank">Snapdragon </a>610 and 615. Intel also showed its hand at Mobile World Congress earlier this week with the<a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/02/samsung-waiting-for-android-64-bit.html" target="_blank"> Merrifield</a> and Moorefield mobile chip lineup while Nvidia did the same at last month's CES with its Tegra K1 SoC.<br />
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With plenty of hardware in the works, it’s now up to <a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/02/samsung-waiting-for-android-64-bit.html" target="_blank">Google</a> to come up with a 64-bit version of Android.