We think of the world’s technology giants as rooted in Silicon Valley. Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, Google and beyond (Katie Prescott writes).
Yet one of the most powerful tech companies in the world, Arm, is British. It is the architect of microchips, the brains of modern-day electronics used in everything from our smartphones to cars and medical equipment.
Today and tomorrow The Times is serialising a book by James Ashton that tells the story of its roots in Cambridge and Acorn Computers, the company behind the BBC Micro computer which inspired a generation of schoolchildren to experiment with tech.
Book extract: The birth of Arm in Cambridge
On a foggy night in mid-December 1990, a group of men trooped into the Rose & Crown, a cosy
