News - Qualcomm announces 64-bit Snapdragon 410 chip

[HEXUS]

Also this 28nm SoC has integrated 4G LTE World Mode chip.

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[zdn1042]

I wish, in a way, that when it comes to upgrading for smartphones, it would be something similar to what we have for PCs. Need a new processor? Swap it in with the old one. Need more RAM? Just stick it in.
This way, we get an additional 1-2 years of use of our smartphones without suffering the penalties performance issues with let's say a new OS.

[glitch]

Motorola wants to make a modular phone. Swapping chips and other parts looks interesting but this phone will be expensive.
The thing that annoys me is this hype around 64bit processors. I dont know how much difference will make, I wonder even if this feature will be used in the next years. Look at PC processors, we have 64 bit capable processors from the days of Athlon64 and how many 64bit apps average person uses?

[HalloweenJack]

windows 8.1 doesn't support the Athlon64 anymore

[DanceswithUnix]

windows 8.1 doesn't support the Athlon64 anymore

Or some core2 machines apparently, due to BIOS problems not allowing the chip to report that it is CMPXCHG16b capable.

Perhaps Microsoft will put the workaround back in 8.2