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by jws 4572 days ago
"64 bit" is the media way of saying ARMv8-A. The architecture has more registers and is generally designed and tuned for the current scale of processors being built. ARMv8-A instead of ARMv7 is the big deal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#ARMv8-A