One of the big news when Apple announced the iPhone 5S was that the phone’s processor A7 gets a 64-bit architecture, which will bring iOS into the future.
Apple develops its own processors based on the ARM architecture for devices like the iPhone and Apple TV. For each new processor performance has gotten better and better. The same goes past A7′s newly launched # iPhone 5S, which is up to 40 times faster than the first model of the iPhone, and up to two times faster than its predecessor A6.
Apple A7 is about as big as its predecessor # A6, yet, with about double the number of transistors and according to Apple lands the number of over a billion .
One of the biggest news with # A7 is that it is now based on a 64-bit architecture, which it was rumored even before Apple’s news conference, but many dismissed. Apple Marketing Phil Schiller said during the presentation that the company is the first in the world to offer it to a mobile platform. Other actors also worked on moving to # 64-bit, for example, rival Samsung, so Apple will not be alone in this, for very long.
Many live blogs that followed the press conference, points out that the improved performance is probably not due to the 64-bit architecture, but the improvements will be other changes in the processor. Apple as usual was tight-lipped about the more technical detail about the A7. The outside world must therefore wait for someone to pick apart the new phone and put the processor under a microscope to know details such as the number of cores.
After iPhone 5 launched last year, we learned that the phone has a gigabyte of system memory right after it is taken apart and examined. The amount of system memory stays at the same level of 5S, which is interesting since one of the main advantages of a 64-bit architecture is that more than four gigabytes of memory can be used.
Industry analyst Patrick Moorhead told The Verge that mobile devices will hit the “32-bit wall” for another three to five years. The wall is the point where 64-bit processors are no longer a luxury but a must. Apple’s rapid switch to 64-bit is thus nothing more than to take advantage of more memory.
Video and game
The new processor has more registers than its predecessor, and it’s something that has meaning now. A7 processor will perform calculations faster, which is important for example in video processing. This along with other improvements, as the number of cores and clock speed, will contribute to the processor in the iPhone 5S is up to twice as fast as Apple A6, used in the iPhone 5 and 5C.
A disadvantage of the transition is that 64-bit applications almost always become larger and often uses more system memory. There were rumors that the iPhone 5S would be released with 128 gigabytes of storage, but that was not the case. Apple remains at 64 gigabytes in the top model.
Pictures of Infinity Blade III.
The switch to 64-bit will come to have significance for all data-intensive applications such as games. The new processor’s abilities when it comes to graphics and game play were demonstrated during the presentation of Epic Games, who showed up on the third installation of # Infinity Blade. Games The study told us that it took only two hours to make a 64-bit version after the 32-bit version of the app was completed. The demonstration of the game, there were fire-breathing dragons and “lens flares” (eng: lens flares), that would make JJ Abrams proud. “
Behind graphics enhancements in A7 represents the first time a proprietary graphics processor of Apple and the API OpenGL ES 3.0. According to Apple, this means that iPhone 5S can get as detailed graphics and visual effects that were previously only possible on computers and game consoles.
64-bits for the Future
Since the iPhone 5S will remain on a gigabyte of system memory like the previous iPhone models, competitors started to make the step up to three gigabytes, is the transition to 64-bit instead of the future. With iOS has iPhone and iPad have become competitors to the computers where it does not require a powerful Intel processor, dedicated graphics card and large screen. More and more people can get by with only an iOS device in everyday life.
The previously speculated whether and when Apple will release an iOS-based laptop or some similar solution has definitely got more grist to their mill. Growth in personal computers has stalled in favor of smart phones and tablets, so Apple’s future lies in IOS.
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