Chips with More power and longer runtimes

The British company ARM creates the blueprints for more than 95 percent of all mobile chips. It determines how quickly and economically tablets and smartphones compute. With the Cortex A53 and A57 expected to launch in 2014, we will have a new generation with ARMv8 command set, which would have support for 64-bit processes. A53 and A57 cores will be implanted together on a chip, where the powerful A57 ensures good speed when required and the weaker A53 maintains low power consumption during routine tasks. Both cores work more efficiently than the current A15/A7 generation (e.g. the ones used in the GALAXY S4). ARM is expecting a performance rise of up to 30 percent. Some ARM license holders have anticipated this development: the A7 chip used in iPhone 5s already runs on ARMv8 commands.  According to insider news, Apple intends to change its chip producers in 2014 and not rely on the A8  with 28nm transistors from Samsung, but with 20nm chips from TSMC. If industry rumours are to be believed, then Samsung will dump the usual ARM blueprint for the upcoming chip generation Exynos 6  and, like Apple, modify its own chips to suit the requirements of its mobile devices better by obtaining an architecture license. Intel has started a performance race with the current Atom generation Bay-Trail. The first Bay-Trail tablets with Android and Windows 8, for example the Omni 10 from HP are already available in certain countries. Bay Trail with 64-bit will be launched some time in 2014. At the end of next year, we will witness a new Atom chip with 14nm transistors, which will improve the runtime of mobile devices to a large extent.