ARMv8 is 64bit, look for video interviews soon

Posted by Charbax – October 27, 2011

ARM announced the ARM v8 for 64bit computing. I was streaming Mike Muller’s keynote on that and I will post the full keynote video later today. I’ll try to interview ARM representatives and journalists now about what that means, check back later for that. Let me know in the comments here which questions I should ask.

  • Karel Gardas

    ARMv8, exactly what I’m waiting for! Cool!

  • Anonymous

    WHOA! 64-bit ARM! I was wondering when that would happen. Nice.

  • Kraku

    64 bit is necessity for anything serious.
    http://tietsikka.blogspot.com/2011/10/hp-ja-arm.html

  • Marc Guillot Puig

    Finally :) . This are great news, soon we won’t have to pay the x86 monopoly tax.

  • http://profiles.google.com/ack0954 Anders Kirchenbauer

    Ask what this means for Thumb/Thumb2 (16-bit data/instructions as an optimization), if there is any new Jazelle type support for JVM or other virtual machines (Having Parrot (PERL), ruby, python, or other JIT VMs hardware accelerated would be awesome, but it is already quite fast on normal ARM), if there are required DSP components and the fate of VFP and what VFP-style hardfloat is required or if we could still see softfloat proprietary drivers that force the whole OS to step down to using emulation when actual FP hardware is in place.

  • Anonymous

    Soon is relative, this is just introducing of the architecture but they have to set up a lot of things before we see any products.  So more like a few years from now and even then it’s mainly being pushed for applications that would actually need it and they will continue to use 32bit products for awhile longer.

    Like the x86 market, it may take over 10 years before everything becomes 64bit.  Though aspects, like memory management will be one of the first things to start becoming common and we’ll see that much sooner.