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Aside from lithography there's clever design. I don't think you can quantify that but it's not nothing.
by ggm 1y ago
Aside from lithography there's clever design. I don't think you can quantify that but it's not nothing.
- eb0la 1y agoActually power efficiency was a side effect of having a straightforward design in the first ARM processor. The BBC needed a cheap (but powerful) processor for the Acort computer and a RISC chip was When ARM started testing their processor, they found out it draw very little power... ... the rest is history.
- delaminator 1y agoThe BBC Micro had a 6502
- iainmerrick 1y agoYou're getting your history mixed up. Acorn won the bid to make the original BBC home computer, with a 6502-based design. Acorn later designed their own 32-bit chip, the ARM, to try to leapfrog their competitors who were moving to the 68000 or 386, and later spun off ARM as a separate company.