Am 31.01.2011 12:57, schrieb Daniel Gibson: > Am 31.01.2011 12:04, schrieb dennis luehring: >>> While workstations for developers have bigger and completely different >>> requirements, in general the most demanding applications for ordinary >>> sixpack-joe are hd-video transcoding (which actually isn't memory >>> intensive), image manipulation (this year's basic $100 models already >>> sport a sensor of 14 megapixels => 45 MB per image layer), and >>> surprisingly web browsing. >>> >>> The ARM equipment support this by providing powerful co-processors and >>> having a tiny (Thumb) instruction set. It's really hard to see where they >>> would need more than 4 GB of RAM.. even according to Moore's law it will >>> take at least 6 years for the top of the line products to use this much >>> memory. >> >> but they work on 64bit: >> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9197298/Arm_readies_processing_cores_for_64_bit_computing >> >> >> > > Hmm I didn't know about that. I thought I read some months ago that porting > ARM > to 64bit is almost impossible. > > As a side note, a comment on the article: > "However, it's easy to imagine a service such as Amazon's EC2 offering > virtualized Linux instances without the user being aware that it's an ARM > setup, > and these could be cheaper than equivalent x86 instances (perhaps even making > for a "budget EC2" service)." > This is BS, because the user is *directly* using EC2 VMs (can use his own > binaries etc), so he *will* care if it runs x86 or ARM. And I don't think > anyone > would want to emulate x86 on ARM... > > Cheers, > - Daniel
http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/2/7/arms-east-denies-64-bit-chip-plans/