The use of ARM based processors in smartphones and tablets means that both Android and iOS users rely on these chips every day. The ubiquity of the ARM architecture means that there is a high ...

Android only supports two computing architectures right now, namely Arm and x86. The former architecture is used in chips powering smartphones, most tablets, smartwatches, and TV boxes.

Smartphones have been using Arm’s Armv8 architecture for their processors, and revisions on that architecture for a decade. The new Armv9 will herald in a generation of new CPU cores that will ...

On the operating system side of the equation, Google has built Android into a viable smartphone competitor to Apple's iOS. Meanwhile, Microsoft's Windows Phone still lags and Windows 8 for tablets ...

A swathe of devices such as tablets and netbooks based on the x86 architecture are set to run Android 4 (Ice cream sandwich) from 2012, after developers successfully ported the operating system to the ...

The Android 2.2 release also brings enhanced support for native development on ARM via the new NDK 3.0 which includes native code debug and support for ARMv7 architecture VFP operations and the ...

Linaro, the open-source development consortium for Linux on ARM architecture, is working on software, tools and drivers that could hasten the release of 64-bit Android. The move is significant ...

For example, the apps only run on chips with the AArch64 architecture. Also, this iOS emulator hasn’t been tested with other apps and games besides Super Monkey Ball.