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Quote: Originally Posted by Maestro64 So Apple makes a 64 bits processor and Samsung phone business had no clue was was happening across the street in the Fab. Problem is, Samsung don't have an internal R&D team for designing new ARM co…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tooltalk Do you work for DED in the fiction department? I didn't know cnet was a PRO-Apple fiction blog. I don't get you point here. Quote: From Cult of Mac: “John Scully was running Apple at the tim…
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Quote: Originally Posted by fatjoe And how do you know that? From what we have seen of Ax under xray so far its just a vanilla ARM with modified SRAM controller and a huge on-chip memory. Do you have access to any other information you would…
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Quote: Originally Posted by d4NjvRzf I stand corrected. ARMv8 bundles most of its improvements with the A64 instruction set. A32 is there for backward compatibility, but a program has to be built for A64 to reap most of the performance improve…
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Quote: Originally Posted by fatjoe Google has never designed/manufactured a CPU still they own 80% of the smartphone market, what are you trying to imply with your post? ARMv8 has been available to everyone since 2011, Apple didn't design it…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mesocyclone As an engineer, I get really frustrated when marketing hype is used to blow up an engineering change into something gigantic, when it isn't. I get annoyed with articles that tout advantages that don't eve…
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Quote: Originally Posted by LAKings33 How do you infer that means there is no proof? The proof was reviewed and it will only be better in a production model from an OEM. Blocking your ears and closing your eyes will not help your cause. The p…
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Quote: Originally Posted by LAKings33 That was the Z3770 being tested at 2.4GHz (turbo). Anand was using an Intel prototype, it will not be coming to market. Final device specifications are up to manufacturers and they will be launching wit…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NelsonX Neah, don't worry! I just have to look at AAPL price and suddenly I feel great! It's soooo good to make money on the downside! Since when Wallstreet is backing Apple decision?
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Quote: Originally Posted by LAKings33 Bay Trail has already been reviewed and you've already been proven wrong. The cost for a Bay Trail Z3740 tablet is ~$299 with Windows 8.1 and MS Office. Apparently the Z3740 only costs $32 USD and th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by LAKings33 I don't expect Merrifield will have much of an impact in the smartphone market, but its bigger brother Bay Trail [Z3740/Z3770] already has a lot to offer. Bay Trail allows for a Windows 8.1 (and/or Android …
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Quote: Originally Posted by capasicum Well, there are a few alternatives: MonoTouch and Apache Cordova. I think there are others, but who cares Like pure C or C++ in Xcode, those solution are wrapped around Objective-C
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Quote: Originally Posted by capasicum Now, I will definitely disagree on the Objective-C part. Actually, Apple provides quite a nicely structured hierarchy of APIs. Low-level - pure C API and libraries Mid-level - CoreFoundation, still C API, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by RichL Re-read what DED wrote. He said that no-one even predicted that there would be a move to 64-bit processors for smartphones. EDIT: If you want proof, here's a presentation from ARM engineers written in 2011. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by d4NjvRzf Is the removal of those "crufty features" related to the 64 bit transition? We were discussing specifically the benefits of 64 bits vs 32 bit, not the numerous other improvements. I mean, x86-64 CPUs have va…
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Quote: Originally Posted by RichL More bullshit from you, Daniel. Even the long dead Symbian had a 64-bit roadmap. A roadmap is only prediction which doesn't translate into execution. There is no working version of 64 bit Symbian and nev…
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Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd Take this from DED "When iOS is executing on a 64-bit device, iOS includes separate 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the system frameworks. When all apps running on the device are compiled for the 64-bit runtime…
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Quote: Originally Posted by d4NjvRzf Disclaimer: I'm not an electrical engineer. That said, I did look through that article. On page 1 it states the primary motivation for moving to 64 bits: Does the article discuss other major benefits of 64 …
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Quote: Originally Posted by kozchris I am surprised that no one seems to have mentioned that the current ARM 64 bit design has a lot of architecture/instructions to support backwards compatibility. Because Apple controls the hardware and the OS…
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Quote: Originally Posted by d4NjvRzf To be fair, iOS was also designed initially for low-memory low-powered devices like the original iPhone. Moreover, it debuted mainly as a platform for web apps, and only later were provisions for third-part…