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AT&T's Hobbit Microprocessor (2023)

An unexpected journey for AT&T with it's own low power processor

The Hobbit becomes enormously popular and takes on the role now occupied by Arm designs : ubiquitous, low power processors used in the devices that we carry around with us and use every day. In the 1983 a new team was formed in Bell Labs to build on the work of the ‘C Machine’ and develop a design that became known as CRISP (for C-language Reduced Instruction Set Processor). In a twist of history, EO would be led by Herman Hauser, one of the founders of Acorn Computers and a key backer of the development of the ARM architecture.

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