Smartphones and D

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Daniel Gibson" <metalcaedes at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:iipq7m$8c0$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 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/

OTOH, you can never trust anything a corporation says. Hell, Nintendo once 
famously stated flat out that they had no plans for a new DS model...and 
then announced the "DS Lite" the following day. Whether because of 
deliberate lie or just one hand not having the slightest clue what the other 
is doing, the word of a corporation can always be considered worthless.