But technically speaking it is BS. Apple does not advertise arm64 they advertise 64 bitness of their CPU which are two different things. Intel 32 bit chip (and even arm 32 bit chip) may have all those extra hardware accelerations without being arm64.
Qualcomm just did not want to be involved in educating the customers (especially given the fact that they will be release their own 64 bit chips soon). Consider their approach to that of Apple (dismissing phones with screens bigger than 3.5" and tablets smaller than iPad). Apple never admits that their statements were BS.
Blast processing is more important than 64 bits for gaming.
But technically speaking it is BS. Apple does not advertise arm64 they advertise 64 bitness of their CPU which are two different things. Intel 32 bit chip (and even arm 32 bit chip) may have all those extra hardware accelerations without being arm64.
We meant armv8 or Apple's arm64, as there are no other existing 64-bit ARM architectures.
And my benchmarks say arm64 is faster than armv7s on lots of types of code, likely lower power as well in iOS devices.
This. Moreover, at least Qualcomm corrected his mistake.
Imagine if Apple had been upfront enough to make the kind of same corrections, every time Jobs tried to diss his competition with factually incorrect claims.
"The comments made by Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, about smaller tablets being no good because you'd have to sandpaper your fingertips down, were inaccurate," said an Apple spokesperson in an email. "The mobile hardware and software ecosystem is already moving in the direction of tablets of various sizes, such as with our iPad mini."
And so forth.
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haha so many great memories. That argument always came up and as a kid I could never refute it...until the super fx chip came out!
lol i said to myself BUUUUUUURN when I read that hahaha lolzWhat a fool. Clearly Qualcomm hires B players.
??????????? So why am I suppose to be impress by this??????#Samsung GALAXY SM-G910S it boast flexible 5.7-inch OLED capacitive touchscreen display that supports full HD (1080p) resolution.
The smartphone is expected to be equipped with a powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor and 3GB of RAM.
It will run Android 4.3 Jelly Bean platform out of the box. Stay tuned for more updates on the matter.
This is just beautiful QUALCOMM, Thank you for your innovation
Its ok Apple fans you can quietly order your device with 100% discretion guaranteed from Qualcomm and SAMSUNG...go a head and make yourself happy![]()
I stick by my original comments, actually. As described in detail in that thread, much of the debate ended up being about semantics and what people mean when they use the term "64-bit." I'd be willing to bet that if you could ask their CMO (and get a frank answer), he'd probably stand by the text of what he said (albeit perhaps not the spirit) but acknowledge that from a marketing perspective, he created a giant hole for himself.
I remember back in the early 90s, listening to NPR and they were having this debate about the internet. The number of people using it back then was just reaching the millions. There was this guy who was so pissed that we were wasting time and money on it "cause no one is really using it"
I really wish I could remember who he was.![]()
Seems you know your stuff and thanks for the clarification (macrumors forum saves the day again!). It had been a long while since I took a very basic course which just touched on the matter so its good to have some updated information.