{"id":37068,"date":"2011-10-28T10:17:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T08:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=37068"},"modified":"2011-10-28T10:20:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T08:20:52","slug":"arm-introduces-first-64-bit-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/37068-arm-introduces-first-64-bit-architecture.html","title":{"rendered":"ARM introduces first 64-bit architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microprocessor manufacturing company <a title=\"ARM architecture\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360516-ARM-architecture\">ARM<\/a> has introduced their first 64-bit processor architecture, ARMv8.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The current ARMv7 architecture is only capable of up to 40-bit processing, a limitation that had previously prevented ARM from competing effectively with <a title=\"Intel\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/307489-Intel\">Intel<\/a> 64-bit Xeon processors.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the beginning of quite a long road to 64-bit products,&#8221; according to ARM CTO <a title=\"Mike Muller\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/376714-Mike-Muller\">Mike Muller<\/a>, who was speaking at ARM TechCon yesterday (27 October).<\/p>\n<p>The ARMv8 processor architecture will offer backwards compatibility and migration for existing software, ARM concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Computer World news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9221262\/ARM_goes_64_bit_with_new_ARMv8_chip_architecture\" target=\"_blank\">Computer World<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARM has introduced the ARMv8, the company\u2019s first 64-bit chip architecture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":32286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2752,6194,131,6196],"class_list":["post-37068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-arm","tag-armv8","tag-intel","tag-mike-muller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37070,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37068\/revisions\/37070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}