The race of the SOCs

As you guys know I spend a lot of time scraping my favorite tech news sites. As I do this I also read up on rumors, announcements and I even try to keep an eye on sales statistics. Most of the time I get caught up in rants on twitter that would be better suited as an article on the blog...which I once again repeated this action yesterday, when discussing 64 bit processing that is. Here's the thing, as we humans evolve? Our desires evolve. As our desires evolve? We begin to demand more. As we begin to demand more? These demands have a direct impact on the technology we use. Our technology is evolving alongside of us as the human race and as it evolves we need ways to process the evolution. Enter stronger, quicker and more efficient processors, mainly mobile processors also known as SOCs ( system on a chip)

As we travel further and further into this endless digital age our processors continue to evolve alongside us, the more we desire and the more they deliver. Now of course this comes with a price. More data consumption...With the consumption of data we need stronger processors and of course a processor needs to become better at every level of the chip. Enter the new wave of processing (well not so new as much as it is new to mobile style chips) 64 bit processing. With chips growing the way they are the old 32 bit is nearing the end of its life span. 32 bit processing only supports between 2-4gb of ram whereas for the foreseeable future 64 bit has limitless ram support. Not only is the ram support limitless but this also means it can support better graphics within the chips, more cores and less energy consumption.

Now...Apple was the first to bring 64 bit processing to a device even though for then iOS ecosystem I truly don't see a need for for it. IOS as a system has a small imprint. Where android and even windows phone 8 and rt run on devices with higher RAM availability...albeit with the introduction of android KitKat the need for extra ram had been eliminated. Kitkat can now run on devices with 512mb of ram which was a beautiful move for the operating system. With the future of 64 bit processing android can really blow the competition out of the water... and with the long standing development of everything that is windows 64 bit processing definitely has a home for years to come.

Now I'm interested to see how 64 bit processing will help the development of all these systems, especially with the imminent introduction of Ubuntu mobile, which is looking to become a great alternative to all systems available currently. Ubuntu has even announced that meizu will be one of the first companies to have a device launching with Ubuntu mobile, that being their current flagship the MX3. I'm pretty certain in the first year of existence Ubuntu mobile will ace many troubles, the good thing is that Ubuntu has a solid backing as an alternative home system so I'm sure those who love Ubuntu at home are already waiting for it to become mobile since its supposed to seamlessly transition, something like the original atrix and the Motorola lapdock. Once again something that would've definitely been successful in this time of evolving processors but was ahead of its time.

All in all with the needs of humans and families, and the evolution of data and processors. The sky is STILL the limit in terms of technology and of course the new wave of 64 bit mobile processing is proving just that.