元器件交易网讯 3月18日消息，据分析机构ABI Research预测，到2018年，用于手机和平板的64位处理器将超过11.2亿枚，占整个移动处理器市场的55%。

　　据ABI Reserch报告，就在苹果A7,首款64位处理器发布仅一个季度，已有超过3600万台iPhone和iPad搭载了这款芯片。随着A7的面世，苹果一度撼动了整个移动行业，迫使芯片供应商和设备厂商在他们的产品线路图中将64位芯片放在了重要的位置。

　　英特尔、迈威尔、联发科、高通和英伟达在2014年移动世界大会上都推出了各自的首款64位移动处理器。不过，在今年下半年下一版安卓升级之前，搭载64位芯片的智能手机不可能上市。ABI Research预计，到今年年底，64位移动芯片出货量将增至1.82亿枚，仅20%被应用于安卓设备。

　　目前绝大多数64位移动芯片针对的都是中端市场而不是高端市场。

　　ABI Research业务总监Malik Saadi表示，现在采用64位元方案的原始设备制造商(OEM)系将其视为一种引人注目的行销策略，以和消费者普遍认为“愈多愈好”的多核心产品做出差异化。

　　Saadi补充说，这并不是说64位处理器不能为安卓设备增加其他有意义的价值，而是说只有当安卓足够成熟时，这项技术的益处才会明显。

　　到2018年，用于手机和平板的64位处理器将超过11.2亿枚，占整个移动处理器市场的55%。安卓设备将以60%的市场份额引领这一趋势，苹果的iOS以30%的份额紧随其后，微软的Windows设备市场占有率不足9%，排在第三位。

　　ABI Research认为，在64位移动芯片领域，ARM架构将处于主导地位，不过将逐渐被X86架构瓜分这一市场。到2018年，X86架构将攫取全球移动芯片市场的10%。（元器件交易网刘光明 译）

　　外媒原文如下：

　　Mobile market to be dominated by 64-bit mobile processors with 55% market share in 2018, says ABI Research Press release

　　Just one quarter after the launch of Apple's A7, the first 64-bit mobile processor, the company managed to power more than 36 million iPhones and iPads with the chip. With the introduction of A7, Apple has once again shaken the whole mobile industry, forcing chipset suppliers and device vendors to make 64-bit chips a high priority in their roadmaps, according to ABI Research.

　　Intel, Marvell, MediaTek, Qualcomm, and Nvidia all announced their first 64-bit mobile processors at Mobile World Congress in 2014 but 64-bit-compliant smartphones are unlikely to hit the market before the release of the next Android update, expected in the second half of the year. By the end of 2014, ABI Research expects shipments of 64-bit mobile processors to exceed 182 million, of which only 20% will power Android devices, the company said.

　　The overwhelming majority of 64-bit mobile chips announced so far are targeted at the mid-range of the Android market and not the high-end part of it. "A number of early adopters will initially use 64-bit as a catchy marketing strategy to easily communicate differentiation using 'more-is-better' adage previously used for promoting performance in the multi-core processor race," commented Malik Saadi, practice director at ABI Research.

　　"This is not to say that 64-bit processing will not add any significant value to the Android sphere but the benefits of this technology will become apparent only when its implementation over Android matures," Saadi added

　　By 2018 shipments of 64-bit processors targeting smartphones and tablets will exceed 1.12 billion units, representing 55% of the total market. Android devices will be leading consumption of these chips with 60% market share, followed by Apple's iOS with 30% and Microsoft Windows in the third position with less than 9% market share.

　　ARM will be the dominant instruction set for 64-bit mobile processing over the forecast period but will gradually lose market share to x86 architecture, which will grasp about 10% share of the total market by 2018, the firm added.