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When Apple launched the iPhone 5s with the 64-bit A7 chip in September 2013, it caught the entire Android industry off guard. Samsung, like most Android OEMs, was still planning to stick with 32-bit for another year. But within months, Samsung scrambled to develop its first 64-bit Exynos chip.
Samsung’s first 64-bit phones used Exynos 7 or Snapdragon 410/615 chips (ARMv8-A architecture). Later models include all Galaxy S, Note, A, and J series from 2015 onward.
The result? The was Samsung’s first all-64-bit flagship—but interestingly, Samsung skipped the Galaxy S6’s microSD slot and removable battery specifically to optimize storage performance for 64-bit memory addressing and faster UFS 2.0 storage. Fans were furious, but it marked a turning point: from that moment on, every Samsung flagship (and eventually mid-range) became 64-bit. Without Apple’s surprise move, Samsung might have stayed 32-bit until 2016.
