ARM introduces first 64-bit architecture
Microprocessor manufacturing company ARM has introduced their first 64-bit processor architecture, ARMv8.
The new architecture should allow wider use of ARM chips in servers as well as other enterprise equipment, and allow the company to compete effectively with the likes of Intel.
The current ARMv7 architecture is only capable of up to 40-bit processing, a limitation that had previously prevented ARM from competing effectively with Intel 64-bit Xeon processors.
Unfortunately the new architecture is still a few years away from the consumer market. ARM expects the first ARMv8 processor designs to be released next year, with prototype consumer and enterprise systems not expected until about 2014.
“This is the beginning of quite a long road to 64-bit products,” according to ARM CTO Mike Muller, who was speaking at ARM TechCon yesterday (27 October).
The ARMv8 processor architecture will offer backwards compatibility and migration for existing software, ARM concluded.
Read the full story over at: Computer World.
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