Users of the ARM7 architecture are familiar with the distinction between the original ARM (32-bit) instruction set and the Thumb 16-bit instruction set. At the simplest, you use the 32-bit instruction ...

For many companies, a desire to utilize current and emerging technologies rather than legacy devices, which can be at or near their end-of-life stage, is driving the move to the 64-bit world. In ...

Arm has announced that from 2023, all of its new smartphone CPU cores will be 64-bit only, with no 32-bit compatibility mode. We have had 64-bit capable smartphone processors since 2013 when Apple ...

Among many other things, iOS 10.3 makes it clear that the end of the road is near for 32-bit iOS apps. This has been coming for a while—all apps and updates submitted for App Store approval since ...

ARC Cores is announcing this week an extension to its instruction set architecture(ISA) that allows for 16-bit instructions on its 32-bit processors. Phil Barnard, product manager at ARC, said: ...

The story of Linux so far, as short as it may be in the grand scheme of things, is one of constant forward momentum. There’s always another feature to implement, an optimization to make, and of course ...