Sign in / up

Reply to post: Re: Old Arm

Heads up: From 2022, all new top-end Arm Cortex-A CPU cores for phones, slabtops will be 64-bit-only, snub 32-bit

gnasher729 Silver badge
Reply Icon

Re: Old Arm

Conditional execution was on a critical path and made it harder to increase the clock speed. I would estimate that removing 32 bit allows you to increase the clock speed by 15% or so.

POST COMMENT House rules

Not a member of The Register? Create a new account here.

Forgotten password ?

  • Enter your comment

  • Add an icon

Anonymous cowards cannot choose their icon