ARM is developing a 64-bit processor in secret

ARM, Intel/AMD was originally a well water innocent river, one side dominated the mobile and portable field with ultra-low power consumption, one side occupied the traditional computing field with a high-performance x86 architecture, but now the intersection of both parties is increasing, they have to step up research and development More competitive new technologies. In early October, ARM announced publicly that it will support multi-threading technology. Now there is news that the 64-bit ARM processor is also under development.

According to reports, ARM has in fact completed the design of a 64-bit processor and demonstrated to its partners a sample chip based on this. It is expected that ARM will officially announce this month or early next month, that is, the next week.

ARM declined to confirm the authenticity of the message, saying only that the farthest point on the roadmap is the recently disclosed Eagle Cortex-A15. The processor supports a large number of server features and guarantees significant performance improvements. However, it is still a 32-bit architecture. Failure to support more than 4 GB of memory is a pain that it is difficult to eliminate, and it also seriously hurts its competitiveness.

Marvell also released Armada XP, the ARM architecture processor of the first quad-core design, and certainly not 64-bit architecture.