Smartphones and D

[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