Prediction: Qualcomm wasn't actually ready to release an ARMv8 chip even at the end of 2014. They may try to do it now, but I don't think they were planning for

Prediction: Qualcomm wasn't actually ready to release an ARMv8 chip even at the end of 2014. They may try to do it now, but I don't think they were planning for it. From recent news it seems they were more interested in jumping on the "8-core" bandwagon (you'd think they learned their lesson when they rushed out their first quad core chip, the S4 Pro, in order to catch-up to everyone else and also have a "quad core chip", but no, they didn't). So how do I figure this? Because their first 64-bit chip they've just announced a few days ago (Snapdragon 410) is an ARM one! That blew my mind. Why? Because Qualcomm licenses ARM's architecture in order to build its own cores, and that should mean that they are coming out with a next-gen core faster than ARM's "stock cores". And yet their very first 64-bit chip is based on ARM's stock cores? That made it pretty obvious that Qualcomm was not prepared at all to make an ARMv8 chip, and I think it was mainly laziness, because of the nice position they enjoy in the Android market right now. They thought they could squeeze 3 years out of the 32-bit Krait, when normally it should've been two. Well the joke is on them. I certainly won't buy any phone in 2014 that isn't 64-bit, since I usually change my phones every 2-3 years, and I don't want to buy one of the very last 32-bit phones. I was actually expecting Qualcomm to release its own custom-made ARMv8 core early 2014 - and on 20nm! So I can't believe Qualcomm was actually going to rest on its laurels to such degree that they weren't even planning to switch to 64-bit, and probably 20nm either, even in 2014! That's insane, and only a company that thinks it has too much monopoly power in a market would do that. As Andy Grove used to say - stay paranoid about your competition. A paranoid company would've expected at least to some degree Apple to release its first 64-bit chip this year. But they didn't even have to do that. They just had to follow the original plan. The one that says release a new core every 24 months, and on a new process node (the one ARM is also following). What ever happened to that plan?