How Acorn Computers Became Arm 🖥️ Matt Godbolt tells the story of how Acorn Computers, makers of the BBC Micro, decided to design their own chip and how they eventually evolved into the company we know today as Arm. Extended Clip: https://lnkd.in/e9uwQtq3 Full Episode: https://lnkd.in/edpKE6pD #arm #microprocessor #microarchitecture #computerhistory
Shervin Shokouhi
1mo
Nowadays a bunch of single man armies (even a single student) design and bring to life their own CPU/SOCs completely from scratch and yes its hard task but its also very beautiful at the same time.
Ray L.
1mo
Woah, so cool that you got to talk to Mr Godbolt himself!
Founder, CEO at GridVortex Systems
1moIt's a really great history, and I heard it in Cambridge by ARM people. You can see the really first silicon from Acorn in the tnmoc in Bletchley Park. And yes, it was designed by hand with a really neat and simple floorplan. A very clean design, made possible by the start of Moore scaling, at the time a small 32bit RISC design easily fitted a chip size die.