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A7 Processor to Be 31% Faster and 64-Bit, iPhone 5S to Support Motion Tracking?
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Yes and from day one they should support hyperthreading, and a desktop class gpu, and sse, altivec, mmx, and virtualization and 16gb ram and 1tb ssd
That would not have been possible. ARM 64-bit CPU's are only just starting to become a reality. Back in 2007, they weren't even on the ARM roadmap and using an Intell or AMD mobile CPU in an iPhone would have been a disaster.
Because of the myth that "more cores means better". It's kind of like camera/Megapixel and screens and PPI. BIGGER NUMBERS NEEDED.
This is crap.
Apple is banking 50% of its revenue, on a 30% speed bump??
At a time when the market is like red hot with competitors with various innovations??
Apple is banking 50% of its revenue, on a 30% speed bump??
At a time when the market is like red hot with competitors with various innovations??
Apple already uses a 64 bit interface on iPhone chips and a 128 bit interface on iPad chips.
That said, 64 bit is extremely unlikely this revision of the iPhone.
Doubt it, considering that the entire A7 is quoted to be 31% faster. That doesn't imply that each core is 31% faster, at least to me...
THANK YOU.
I'd be much more impressed if they could match current quad core phones with a dual core like they did with the iPhone 5 when it came out.
You need to remember though, back in 2007 no one knew the iPhone would be this huge. They didn't even have an App Store yet, and it was meant to do basic phone necessities, but with ease of use. iOS has matured a lot as an OS.
Since the iOS kernel shares code with the OS X kernel, 64 bit support is in place for the most part, they would just need the processor specific bits to be added.
As for emulation, it may not be needed. Most (if not all) processor families that move from 32bit to 64bit can execute 32bit code natively.
In other words, what you're saying is a non-issue.
As for the developer toolkit, yeah there should be signs, unless Apple doesn't care about 64bit apps right off the bat.
Battery life is important to Apple though (and what brought me over from Android), and why Apple is careful what it brings. Most Android phones have poor battery life. People wonder why Apple haven't bumped the RAM? More RAM requires more juice to power it. More cores? Yet more power. Background processes? Yeah, you guessed it.
I'm all for faster processors, but the iPhone 5 is hardly a slouch?
Hope it doesn't impact battery life, but hey, I'm sure Apple know what they are doing.
Hope it doesn't impact battery life, but hey, I'm sure Apple know what they are doing.
Well.. When retina and the 4" screen came out they didn't have signs of this. So many apps didn't support it right away. But developers were quickly updating them - same would be the case with 64-bit (IF the app would benefit from that. It's not that "game changing" like retina and the 4" was).
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No, not really....
apple adding useless features (this and fingerprint reader) that people don't want, rather than a bigger screen that people DO want.
Apple squeezes more out of its processors and has a much more efficient OS than Android. So comparing CPU numbers directly has little relevance.
This is also Fox News, so I'm taking this with a metric ton of salt.
That's not why Apple hasn't bumped the ram. iOS doesn't need 2 GB + ram to run fast on the current hardware thats being released at the time. Apple writes iOS to take full advantage the ram thats available.