ARM Achieves An Unfathomable Milestone; Ships 250 Billion Chips Since The Company’s Inception 40 Years Ago; Now Aiming For More Categories

Last Thursday, Arm celebrated the forty years of eponymous architecture. The opportunity for the company to highlight an impressive figure: 300 billion Arm chips delivered since 1985...

Arm Flexes An Incredible 250 Billion Chip Cores Shipped In 40 Years

You may not realize it, but chances are high that one of your devices is rocking an Arm-based chip of some kind. And probably multiple devices. Arm's IP has been used to design an enormous range of system-on-chips (SoCs) that power many Android smartphones, tablets, routers, smart TVs, and so much more. Given that's the case, it's not surprising

ARM Achieves An Unfathomable Milestone; Ships 250 Billion Chips Since The Company’s Inception 40 Years Ago; Now Aiming For More Categories

In 1978, two talented individuals, Chris Curry and Hermann Hauser, co-founded Acorn Computers, a startup with extremely humble beginnings in Cambridge, and were awarded a contract to build the BBC Micro, which was part of a U.K. government initiative where it was envisioned that every classroom needed to have a computer present. Acorn Computers might have believed that this was a victory for them, but it turned out that this small event would ch…

Over 250 billion Arm chips have shipped since the first ARM1 processor launched 40 years ago

The first Arm processor was created in Cambridge in 1985.

Is ARM really 40?

Landing on a date for technology launches is sometimes a challenge, and none more so than at the UK processor core designer ARM. The first ARM processor taped out on 26th April at Acorn in Cambridge, UK. The ARM1 was Acorn’s in-house developed processor, following the success of the BBC Micro home computer. It was […] The post Is ARM really 40? appeared first on eeNews Europe.