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A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip (2022)
In 1983, Acorn Computers needed a CPU. So 10 people built one.
Wilson and Furber found little more than a “bungalow in a suburb” with a few engineers and some students making diagrams using old Apple II computers and bits of sticky tape. Wilson explained that this was entirely a cost-saving measure—the team wanted to use a plastic case for the chip instead of a ceramic one, so they set a maximum target of 1 watt of power usage. Acorn had set up a remote software development team in Palo Alto, California, home of Xerox PARC, to design a next-generation operating system for the Archimedes.
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