Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:04:11 +0100, dennis luehring wrote: >> 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
What this means is that the same add/sub/mul/div calculator program which previously needed 2000 bytes of RAM on my grandfather's PDA soon uses 500 GB.
