...and there's more:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8554/the-iphone-6-review/3

Someone on Realworldtech worked out that the SPEC int result should be 1493.
To put it into perspective, that's just below a 2.5GHz G5.

If that's not enough HiSilicon recently announced a 32 core A57 @2.6GHz.

The 64 bit chips are starting to arrive.

Applied Micro Xgene is apparently shipping.

Nvidia K1 is or is soon shipping and getting some pretty stellar geekbench scores.

Mediatech announced the MT6795 8 core A53 / Mali-T760.

Samsung announced the Exynos 7, Quad A57 and quad A53 + Mali-T760.. The international Note 4 has this chip.

Allwinner have a 64 bit chip on the way but don't seem to have said much about it yet.
They do have a dev board on the way:

http://liliputing.com/2014/10/allwinner-nobel64-is-a-64-bit-dev-board.html


In the mean time they'll sell you a $4 quad core A7.

I would have expected 64 bit to appear at the top end and slowly work it's way down.
Look like they'll appear in the mid to low end stuff very rapidly indeed.

http://www.tyan.com/campaign/openpower/

Isn't that more sexier than those cheap ARM chips?

For the saving in power consumption you could buy 4 ARM socs per year ; )
Check Odroid XU3 it is on desktop level.
The older U3 is already faster than a X1000 ...
Compile FS-UAE GLES and you are done with AEONS systems.

this is old
http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=952

http://linuxgizmos.com/odroid-hacker-board-jumps-to-faster-octacore-soc/

x86 way to boring and PPC is dead except for special uses. Nintendo could replace the Gametablet of the WiiU with one with a 8core ARM system and stream the games from it to the wiiU -> this would be cheaper and way more modern.

> Compile FS-UAE GLES and you are done with AEONS systems.

Is UAE with PPC emulation also available for ARM?

I didn't checked the latest fs-UAE dev builds but dependencies are all available.
Fs-UAE is available for arm for a long time (2years for pandora).
http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=653

Problem is that the last ppc additions haven't been commited yet into that branch.
This could be solved If there is really interest.
I would donate a bigger sum as soon xu3 like devices are availble for less than 100€.
Than ppc emulation starts to make sense.

>> Is UAE with PPC emulation also available for ARM?

> the last ppc additions haven't been commited yet into that branch.

Thanks for answering.

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There are Android TV boxes at around $90 on ebay that should have similar performance and have a better GPU.

Just search for "RK3288" It's a Quad A17


The 64 bit ARM chips will probably be better at emulating PPC. They have the same number of registers which should make mapping between them easier.

Now the Quad A17 makes even more sense
http://aros-exec.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=90706#forumpost90706

Any mind change regarding MOS on WinUAE?

Addendum:

> http://www.freescale.com/files/training/doc/dwf/DWF13_APF_NET_T0795.pdf [...]
> QorIQ LS2045P: - 4 x e5500 [...]
> QorIQ LS3400P: - 20 x e6500

Mentioned in http://www.powerpc-notebook.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/LinuxDay2014_Mi_presentation_pub_en.pdf (page 12, apparently copied from a Freescale document) for 2016 time frame:

- LT1082P: 4 x e6500
- LT1042P: 4 x e6500
- LT3160P: 8 x e6500
- LS3xxxP

> Now I get a little bit confused....ARM is relasing planning Cortex-A17 (over A12) ...
> ....ok..A12 has no big.LITTLE...

In order to ease the confusion, ARM has decided 2 months ago that there's no A12 anymore and has merged it into A17:

http://community.arm.com/groups/processors/blog/2014/09/30/arm-cortex-a17-cortex-a12-processor-update

> this thing has 48 (!) 2.5GHz 64bit ARM cores. Half a Terabyte memory per chip and
> you can gang a pair together with a coherent bus. PCIe, SATA etc is all built in.
> Mind = boggled.

Now available:

http://www.cavium.com/newsevents-Cavium-Announces-Availability-of-ThunderX.html

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Wow!

The 64-bit hardware is starting to appear now: Applied Mocro X-Gene dev board.

Not exactly super cheap ($895 promo for the 1.6GHz version) but it's the first out there and does have 8 cores.

There's a video here.

Yeah, definitely not cheap (and that was also a promo price), but still very interesting to see this. It's actually a full fledged desktop motherboard, 3rd gen PCI-E for real desktop GFX card, SATA 3 for HDD, etc. Eight core 64-bit CPU, up to 16GB RAM (the SoC itself supports up to 256GB RAM), etc, etc.

This is "Samantha Done Right" (but of course this didn't exist back when Acube did the Sam)...

Anyway, very expensive, but open for everyone to buy, no licenses, no NDA's, nothing like that. More is bound to follow, and the price is bound to come down drastically in the future for products like this.

Seen this on slashdot the other day:

40 linux friendly single board computers

Mostly ARM based but there's also MIPS and a few x86s in there as well. Alas not a single PPC.

There are some they've missed, Qualcomm and Nvidia boards aren't mentioned and neither is the firefly.

I don't think there's any 64 bit boards yet but Allwinner already showed one.

Do you think it would be realistic to do something like MOS did with the old MAC PPC´s with old iPads/iphones/android phones with this kind of more advanced ARM builds in a few years, e.g. install a future ARM-MOS version onto a phone and run it like a computer?

(connecting your phone to a monitor/TV,Keyboard, mice is a commodity already today,

I understand we are far from this but I just want to know if you tekkies think it is realistic?

(Also I have noticed that tappdevices are taking larger and larger chunks of the % of webbpages visited from the clickdevices so that webbdesigners are soon in need of making tappdevice design first and clickdevices second this perhaps also need to be considered for future strategy for MOS not to get too stuck into clickdevices with their OS ?)

> Do you think it would be realistic to do something like MOS did with the
> old MAC PPC´s with old iPads/iphones/android phones

At least with Apple devices this wouldn't be feasible as Apple SoCs are not documented for 3rd party OS vendors.

> webbdesigners are soon in need of making tappdevice design first and clickdevices
> second this perhaps also need to be considered for future strategy for MOS not to
> get too stuck into clickdevices with their OS ?

I don't see the connection between website design and the design of a desktop OS.

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It would be nice to port to an ARM device that does not come automatically with Linux. Linux is everywhere and I hate that. But MorphOS developers would have to reverse engineer the "Apple" device. And perhaps they just shouldn't consider the "Apple" device.

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Because most website designers are stupid. They make the websites with touch screen mobile device as priority. The website renders as compatible for the touch screen mobile device, even on a desktop / laptop device. I hate touch screen device. Touch screen device loves to malfunction. And morphOS must not be reconfigured into a touch screen operating system! Certainly not like iOS, Android, or even Windows 8! Even if the mobile device has option of external keyboard and mouse / track pad they still have annoying oversized screen "buttons".

An alternative solution should be that MorphOS support the touch screen laptop. ... The one with the traditional "click" interface and keyboard with the secondary option to touch it with a pen or stylus.

Another alternative solution is to have device with touch screen but has the primary option of keyboard and track pad. Example is BlackBerry usually does this and the interface with keyboard and track pad which also displays a mouse arrow!

Update:

>> in terms of 64-bit ARMv8 (AArch64) cores, there is announced so far:
>> - Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57 from ARM Ltd.
>> - Denver from nVidia
>> - X-Gene from Applied Micro
>> - Thunder from Cavium
>> - Cyclone and Typhoon from Apple

> - Vulcan from Broadcom
> - K12 from AMD

- Mamba Kryo from Qualcomm

http://semiaccurate.com/2015/01/21/name-qualcomms-64-bit-post-krait-core/
http://semiaccurate.com/2015/01/26/roadmap-qualcomms-taipan-core-wrong/
http://www.qualcomm.com/news/snapdragon/2015/03/02/cognitive-computing-and-custom-cpu-drive-next-gen-snapdragon-processors
http://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2015/03/02/qualcomm-previews-next-generation-snapdragon-experiences-mwc-2015

- Cortex-A72 from ARM Ltd.


Edit: added another link
Edit2: corrected name of Qualcomm's core and added links
Edit3: added Cortex-A72
Edit4: added Apple Typhoon

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I'd take anything from Semiaccurate with a pinch of salt!
They can get things right but they can also get things very wrong.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-2-on-sale/

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Very cool, and with a Cortex-A7 it will almost be usable! No seriously, this is a cool deal, incredible price for what you get. And Windows 10 is coming as well...

If that's not potent enough you might like a shiny new Cortex-A72:

http://www.androidauthority.com/arm-cortex-a72-mali-t-880-584587/

...and you won't have to wait 2 years for these to appear in devices.

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Wow, that's really cool!

Here is more:
- ARM's Cortex-A72 PressRelease
- ARM's Cortex-A72 Product Page

So much is happening in the ARM world right now, progress almost seem to acellerate!