Am 31.01.2011 12:15, schrieb retard:
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.
there are so many different ARM Architectures out there that i don't
thing that someone will put an comming 64bit variant into an PDA... no
one needs to be afraid here
