The World’s Most Popular Chip Turns 40
(Source: man)In April 1985, a small team at Acorn Computers in Cambridge, UK, began rethinking the concept of processors. Engineers Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber developed the ARM1 (which originally stood for Advanced RISC Machine), a modest chip that contained only 25,000 transistors. The ARM1 powered the BBC Micro, creating a 32-bit processor that emphasized … Read more