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"Processor is always a harder to produce part and there is only handful of suppliers." That's how ARM started. The designers of the Archimedes computer looked
by timthorn 17y ago
"Processor is always a harder to produce part and there is only handful of suppliers."
That's how ARM started. The designers of the Archimedes computer looked round for a powerful but cheap CPU and couldn't find one, so they decided to build their own. They had a very small team, so by necessity it was a simple design - but that ended up being its strength.