RISC architecture and ARM processor
Arquitectura RISC y procesador ARM
- Date
- 1980-1985 · confidence high
- Place
- UC Berkeley, United States, and Acorn Computers, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- David Patterson (Berkeley RISC), John Hennessy (Stanford MIPS), John Cocke (IBM 801); Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber (ARM1, 1985)
- People
- 👤 David A. Patterson1947–👤 John Cocke1925–2002👤 John L. Hennessy1952–👤 Sophie Wilson1957–👤 Steve Furber1953–
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Philosophy of processors with reduced, efficient instruction sets; ARM took it to a minimal consumer chip. ARM is today in almost every phone and in many servers.
What it led to
- Low-power mobile computing (smartphones, IoT)
- The model of licensing chip designs rather than manufacturing them
- Apple Silicon processors and competition with x86