Overview of ARM and Mobile Device Architecture

Now you may realise that there is more than one assembly language type. The most widely used assembly language types are ARM, MIPS, and x86. New architectures will come and replace the old ones simply because they may reduce power consumption or silicon die size. Another push for a new CPU architecture is malware that exploits its features to steal users' data. Such malware, like “Spectre” and “Meltdown,” exploits vulnerabilities in modern CPU designs. Used vulnerabilities were designed as a feature for the CPU – speculative execution and branch prediction. So, this means that in the future, there will be new architectures or their newer versions and alongside them, new malware.