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Further reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortex_A15

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4206387/ARM7-40bit-v...

I'm a little outside of my area of expertise, but didn't Intel late model 32-bit chips have a form of larger memory addressing? I thought I read somewhere that there was a greater-than-32-bit memory address setup in x86 architectures, but Microsoft products wouldn't take advantage of it, only Linux and other OSs were able to use it.

Even in a modern x86-64 bit architechture, you can do some limited 128 and 256 bit operations. This ARM may have a greater-than 32 bit memory addressing setup, but only support 32 bit opcodes for the main registers.

You're thinking of PAE. It allowed the system as a whole to use more than 4Gib, but it still limited a virtual memory space to 4GiB.

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