Samsung: Next-Gen Galaxy Will Have 64-Bit Processor

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ebw said:

fatslob-:O said:
I have one question though, does anybody know if the register count will double just like x86 processors did when switching from 32 bits to 64 bits ?

Yes, this was explicitly announced in the original Apple keynote: twice the general-purpose registers, twice the floating-point registers.  I wonder what "modern instruction set" refers to, aside from maybe fixed-width instructions which I think I read somewhere.  I thought the ARM instruction set was pretty modern already.

I think they mean by giving more the most recent instruction extensions such as giving the SIMD engines more flexible instructions sets.