Open Jingdong or Tmall, enter the smart network set-top box, a large number of TV boxes or TVs marked with 64-bit super cores emerge one after another, brand products or cottage products appear in front of consumers as the face of the brush, the domestic four major box brands Haimei Di, Skyworth Box, Infik, and Open Bor are all based on 64-bit chip products with flagship products. The price is located between 200-500 yuan, and the performance is superior. This can not help but give consumers fresh questions - whether the 32-bit hardware and software system will come from this Sluggish? Looking at the numerous intelligent network set-top boxes in the market today, manufacturers have set foot in the 64-bit market, and 32-bit products have become less competitive. So there is really no place for 32-bit products. 64-bit box can really unify the rivers and lakes?
Hardware: Revalidation of Moore's Law
Gordon Moore, a founder of Intel, once said that when the price is not changed, the number of components that can be accommodated on integrated circuits will double every 18-24 months. The performance will also be doubled, in other words, the computer performance that every dollar can buy will more than double every 18-24 months. This is the famous Moore's law, processor performance from 32-bit to 64-bit hardware is excessive, which is consistent with the true connotation of Moore's Law, from the hardware's multiplication brings leapfrog development of performance, is a concrete manifestation of the development of information technology to a certain height .
32-bit hardware PK 64-bit hardware is mainly a performance battle:
Although the 64-bit processor seems to only double in number compared to the 32-bit processor, it brings a geometric increase in performance. The 64-bit processor brings logical arithmetic units, registers, and bus width to 64 bits (8 words. Section) operation, a single processing instruction is longer, the data stream width is doubled at the same time, in addition, the 32-bit processor can only support 4G memory, the 64-bit processor completely kills, the 32-bit OTT box to 64 The transition is in line with the development of Android products, and the performance experience is upgraded through hardware upgrades.
Judging from the 64-bit processors on the OTT box currently available on the market, there are mainly the following four models, and currently the largest number of product camps is Rockchip RK3368, such as Haimeidi H7, Kaiboer Q10, Skyworth i71S, etc. Etc. Detailed chip description is shown below:
Software: Android 64-bit systems begin to gain popularity
“Eating cotton candy†is a slogan launched by Android smart phone manufacturers in 2015. This also reveals that Android 6.0 will be popular in the mobile phone industry in 2016. According to the Android mobile phone system to Android TV-box transplantation, Android 5.0 in 2015 At the beginning of the show, I believe that in 2016, we will usher in the popularity of the Android 5.0 system version. From the hardware requirements, the Android 5.0 architecture itself is positioned at 64, so the software level determines that the 64-bit era will be In the next box, "Unified rivers and lakes."
32-bit software PK 64-bit software is mainly a battle of experience:
Android 4.0 system is the beginning of Android fragmentation, Android 5.0 began to design and user experience to start, like the significance of coming back, especially based on the ART environment to run by default to speed up the application to start and run speed, and is compatible with Android version 5.0 APP (that is compatible with 64-bit and 32-bit applications), in addition to the details of the design, Android5.0 in the security issues have also been a new upgrade, it can be said that the alternative "high-value" and connotation. Specific to the box side of the experience, if you are using the Android5.0 system of the box, do not prevent the use of a stopwatch at boot time to record the opening time, let us re-"core" experience 64-bit box system brings fun!
32 special places to use
From the above introduction, it seems that the 64-bit hardware and software system will undoubtedly defeat the 32-bit position with absolute advantage. But is this really the case? From the author's point of view not necessarily! In some specific applications, low-cost boxes can reduce the manufacturer's cost, and the simpler the single application system is, the more stable the system is. When the author happily pay 200 yuan after paying the IPTV box from the telecom operator, I saw the familiar Android system interface, and the box is equipped with USB port, SD card slot, the author is excited, at least at this stage the standard box with Is a 64-bit system! However, when I open the settings interface, 32-bit quad-core configuration, and the application of APP blocked expansion, which means that IPTV box can only be used as an online video portal. This is a 32-bit system application under a specific application scenario will bring higher cost performance, just like the debate on killing pigs with a razor blade, the mountain is not in high spirits, the water is not deep and there is a dragon, the configuration is not high enough to use on the line!
The competition between 32-bit and 64-bit hard and soft systems has been a long-standing battle, especially with the 8-, 16-, and 32-bit battles of early processors, from processors, PCs, cell phones, tablets, and TV boxes. With the same development profile, with the advancement of information technology, the mainstream (consumer level) is still dominated by 64-bit (which will be higher in the future). For special occasions, 32-bit or smaller-bit processors are more cost-effective or have their existence. rationality.
Hardware: Revalidation of Moore's Law
Gordon Moore, a founder of Intel, once said that when the price is not changed, the number of components that can be accommodated on integrated circuits will double every 18-24 months. The performance will also be doubled, in other words, the computer performance that every dollar can buy will more than double every 18-24 months. This is the famous Moore's law, processor performance from 32-bit to 64-bit hardware is excessive, which is consistent with the true connotation of Moore's Law, from the hardware's multiplication brings leapfrog development of performance, is a concrete manifestation of the development of information technology to a certain height .
64-bit processor popular again to verify Moore's law
32-bit hardware PK 64-bit hardware is mainly a performance battle:
Although the 64-bit processor seems to only double in number compared to the 32-bit processor, it brings a geometric increase in performance. The 64-bit processor brings logical arithmetic units, registers, and bus width to 64 bits (8 words. Section) operation, a single processing instruction is longer, the data stream width is doubled at the same time, in addition, the 32-bit processor can only support 4G memory, the 64-bit processor completely kills, the 32-bit OTT box to 64 The transition is in line with the development of Android products, and the performance experience is upgraded through hardware upgrades.
Judging from the 64-bit processors on the OTT box currently available on the market, there are mainly the following four models, and currently the largest number of product camps is Rockchip RK3368, such as Haimeidi H7, Kaiboer Q10, Skyworth i71S, etc. Etc. Detailed chip description is shown below:
Four mainstream 64-bit OTT box processor big PK
Software: Android 64-bit systems begin to gain popularity
“Eating cotton candy†is a slogan launched by Android smart phone manufacturers in 2015. This also reveals that Android 6.0 will be popular in the mobile phone industry in 2016. According to the Android mobile phone system to Android TV-box transplantation, Android 5.0 in 2015 At the beginning of the show, I believe that in 2016, we will usher in the popularity of the Android 5.0 system version. From the hardware requirements, the Android 5.0 architecture itself is positioned at 64, so the software level determines that the 64-bit era will be In the next box, "Unified rivers and lakes."
Android 5.0 system user experience is better
32-bit software PK 64-bit software is mainly a battle of experience:
Android 4.0 system is the beginning of Android fragmentation, Android 5.0 began to design and user experience to start, like the significance of coming back, especially based on the ART environment to run by default to speed up the application to start and run speed, and is compatible with Android version 5.0 APP (that is compatible with 64-bit and 32-bit applications), in addition to the details of the design, Android5.0 in the security issues have also been a new upgrade, it can be said that the alternative "high-value" and connotation. Specific to the box side of the experience, if you are using the Android5.0 system of the box, do not prevent the use of a stopwatch at boot time to record the opening time, let us re-"core" experience 64-bit box system brings fun!
32 special places to use
From the above introduction, it seems that the 64-bit hardware and software system will undoubtedly defeat the 32-bit position with absolute advantage. But is this really the case? From the author's point of view not necessarily! In some specific applications, low-cost boxes can reduce the manufacturer's cost, and the simpler the single application system is, the more stable the system is. When the author happily pay 200 yuan after paying the IPTV box from the telecom operator, I saw the familiar Android system interface, and the box is equipped with USB port, SD card slot, the author is excited, at least at this stage the standard box with Is a 64-bit system! However, when I open the settings interface, 32-bit quad-core configuration, and the application of APP blocked expansion, which means that IPTV box can only be used as an online video portal. This is a 32-bit system application under a specific application scenario will bring higher cost performance, just like the debate on killing pigs with a razor blade, the mountain is not in high spirits, the water is not deep and there is a dragon, the configuration is not high enough to use on the line!
Contradictory 32-bit processor's price-performance advantage is even more pronounced
The competition between 32-bit and 64-bit hard and soft systems has been a long-standing battle, especially with the 8-, 16-, and 32-bit battles of early processors, from processors, PCs, cell phones, tablets, and TV boxes. With the same development profile, with the advancement of information technology, the mainstream (consumer level) is still dominated by 64-bit (which will be higher in the future). For special occasions, 32-bit or smaller-bit processors are more cost-effective or have their existence. rationality.