Agreed.

But “iPhone 5s” is the first mobile telephone with a “package on package” “system on a chip” with that can “compute” with 64 bits. There are general purpose registers that are 64 bits wide, hence this being referred to as “64-bit”.

I think this line in the wiki article you posted is simple and to the point. “Innovation differs from improvement in that innovation refers to the notion of doing something different rather than doing the same thing better.” 32-bit to 64-bit doesn’t seem to fit the ‘innovation’ moniker if you agree with that statement.

OMG man. What facts do you want and what facts have you provided. I told you “my opinion” which makes it a FACT that it is only an opinion that is mine. What have you provided to the conversation besides a wiki link that to a definition of a word that also would and can be used against the very argument that I fell you are getting at. Present your side of the story and lets go from there or go troll someone else.

Why is it you cannot face the FACTS?

Please explain.

No, but basically. I explained my feelings up above. you came back with and insult. I asked you to explain your side, and then you told “OK, Go Ahead”

So yeah. Ignoring. Because it and you add no intellectual value to my day. Linking a wiki definition to a word yet not describing how you feel it fits into the argument is not value either.

Ummm…did you ignore my comment?

Hmm.. I see that Global Task Scheduling is what you are referring to. I can see how the big.LITTLE is more flexible in terms of the types of tasks both cores can perform. After think on this a bit more I think it’s still cool that they have a dedicated processor for only motion sensing tasks but I now realize it is not really an innovation since I now remember my C64 way back in early 80’s having the SID chip which was dedicated to sound processing. The C128 now seems more impressive for the time considering that it actually had 3 separate CPUs each dedicated for CP/M, C64 mode and C128 mode all sharing the same memory.

well that’s what assuming gets me right?

it is done simultaneously as lower level tasks get funneled to the less power hungry core while higher level tasks are concurrently running…

a good example of this would be motorola’s X8 chip which enables their active notifications and “always on” voice commands…

You are unbelievable.

Being snarky wasn’t my intention.. Sorry you took it that way.. Just was surprised to hear that it was done before.

After perusing the wiki article you linked to it doesn’t seem to pertain to offloading a particular type of calculation (sensor) to a dedicated chip.. The big.LITTLE seems to be a way for processes to be completely switched to the larger more power hungry core when the workload becomes too heavy for the smaller one. I get the impression that both are not used simultaneously.

Ok, you go ahead.

the concept of “big.LITTLE” computing is hardly new and FAR from innovative in 2013…

Really, go ahead. Explain bud. A one line insult is not an argument.

Could you explain?

LOL
Ignorance at its finest.

I was not aware of that. Good to know.. What did they call their dedicated motion co-processor?

both motorola and samsung have previously done this…

I guess the world and I have a different definition of innovation.

Now I will be the first to admit I am primarily an Android fan, yet also I am glad and surprised by the decision to move to 64bit computing. I wouldn’t call it innovative, a huge step forward though.

But, as many Android fans know, today’s phones and OS’s are more like full blown PC OS’s. The theory and functionality behind it all is nearly identical at times. So we can pretty much predict anything that furthered the development of desktop computing will eventually make it’s way into a phone.

For this I not surprised that 64bit computing made it’s way to phones. And this is also why I can’t call it “innovative” I can however commend Apple for pulling the trigger and making that step.