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ARM Processor - Sowing the Seeds of Success - Computerphile

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  • Presented by Steve Furber, co-designer of the ARM architecture

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Steve Furber discusses the origins of the Acorn RISC Machine and how the ARM processor achieved its massive success.

30 years ago, Acorn Computers switched on their first ever processor, the Acorn RISC Machine, or ARM. Now, they power 95% of smartphones & 12 billion ARM chips shipped last year. Professor Steve Furber (University of Manchester) speaks about how he and Sophie Wilson started the project. Spinnaker Electronic Brain: COMING SOON Path to BBC Micro & ARM: youtu.be/izy6h_vvSxU Real Life Holodeck: youtu.be/7ZPs7knvs7M Atari ST: youtu.be/3OdtfsXOkEY facebook.com/computerphile twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. More at bradyharan.com

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What people say. Recommended for its historical insight into the design and low power consumption of the original ARM processor.

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When they tested the first arm cpu, the chip consumed so little power that it was able to power itself from the measuring probes without power connected. Edit: add link to source (around minute 8)
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…n) also draws less power and produce less heat than a complex CPU, which has made them popular for phones and tablets. RISC is also probably easier to verify from a security standpoint, as you have less hardware to consider and the design is more straightforward. If you're interested in the history you should check out this computerphile video: [video Edit: Just to be clear, ARM is also based on the ideas of RISC, this article is talking about how they reacted to an open source rival. An example of a CISC (complex instruction set) processor would be x86 (Intel and AMD).…
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