ARM Holding try to go beyond the market of mobile electronics and impose its own processor to PC makers and server equipment. And if the initiative to implement ARM chips in personal computers was supported by Microsoft, which is preparing a special version Windows 8, adapted to the architecture above , the development of server-based operating system with support for ARM is limited - due to end of 32-bit versions Windows Server development. Thus, the only developer willing to provide all possible assistance ARM in the server market remains the operating system Ubuntu .
British developer of processors did not postpone the issue indefinitely, and introduced its first 64-bit processor architecture ARMv8, which absorbed the best of 32-bit ARMv7. The new architecture has two basic execution states: AArch64 and AArch32. In the first case, a new set of commands A64. The main features of ARMv7, such as virtualization, TrustZone and a set of commands SIMD NEON, preserved and developed.
Interest in the new architecture is shown by Microsoft and NVIDIA, and the initial support is provided in the software, which is already available to key partners of holding. Currently, developers are focused on providing support of ARMv8 operating systems with open source. The first processors with the new architecture will be released as early as 2012, but the appearance of workable systems based on them is not expected until 2014.