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Arm can be seen as a direct product of the UK's Computer Literacy Project, and slightly less directly the broad base of games developers in the UK could be con
by timthorn 6y ago
Arm can be seen as a direct product of the UK's Computer Literacy Project, and slightly less directly the broad base of games developers in the UK could be considered another output.
The Transputer was less of a success, but left a legacy that I think can be traced through to Graphcore today.
- zeristor 6y agoDidn’t the collapse of Inmos go on to start an electronics hub in Bristol, a rather nifty unintended consequence. I suppose if they tried to replicate that sort of pump priming failure they would be thought of wasting money.
- ggm 6y agoWolfson up in scotland did design for fpga which booted apple into a different place then apple disintermediated wolfson
- ampdepolymerase 6y agoARM was also for a while an Apple subsidiary. They are not a pure European story.
- billyruffian 6y agoPartnership (well, joint venture) with Acorn, not subsdiary.
- ggm 6y agoArm is indeed the killer success story but like frauenhoffer it pivoted to "licence the ipr" instead of going into world scale fab. That's the part Europe seems to miss: making endogenous industry in territory