Androids may catch up to Apple's A10 with ARM's new 'laptop-class, console-level' chipsets

ARM has a new mobile chipset architecture in the works for next year. That short sentence is capable of sending goosebumps down the spine of the initiated tech lovers, as ARM is the engineering bureau behind the Snapdragon, Exynos, Kirin, and all other Android chipset designs. Apple, whose A-series system chips are highly customized, still uses the ARM instruction sets, too.

The iPhones, however, have consistently outperformed top-shelf Androids, irregardless of their chipset model, in synthetic benchmarks. The reason behind that, according to analyst Patrick Moorhead, ...