Qualcomm self owned 64 bit processor

Yesterday, some news said the latest XiaoMi smart phone, Mi5 will adopt the Qualcomm 64 bit octa core processor, Snapdragon 810. It is quite an amazing news. But today, Ontablets said the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 will be available for mass production in the second quarter of 2015, that means the smart phones with it will be available in middle of 2015 at earliest. That means the XiaoMi Mi5 is quite impossible to adopt this Snapdragon 810 processor.

Ontablets also said, as the Snapdragon 810 is quite powerful, so after it is available, in future, there is little space the enhance it further. So it may be not a good news for smart phones suppliers that it is available too early.

But we have to say, Snapdragon 810 adopts the ARM open framework. It integrates four Cortex A53 and four Cortex A57. But the other Qualcomm processor, MSM8996 is based on the ARMv8 and self developed processor. It is quite similar as the Apple A8, and Nvidia Tegra K1.