A History of The ARM Microprocessor | Dave Jaggar | Talks at Google

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klelatti · 2020-06 · Recommendation

Agreed plus Thumb which got ARM into Nokia mobile phones. Dave Jaggar has some interesting comments on the history around DEC, StrongARM and the Austin ARM team. [VIDEO]

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laurencerowe · 2022-09 · Reference

Apple's investment in ARM in November 1990 (when ARM was spun out of Acorn as a joint venture between Acorn, Apple, and VLSI) was a result of Apple's decision to select ARM for the Newton sometime in 1990 since Acorn and Apple competed in the UK education market [1]. [1] [VIDEO] , "A History of The ARM Microprocessor"

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brucehoult · 2021-05 · Reference

Here’s the opinion of probably THE most important ARM engineer of the 1990s and 2000s, Dave Jaggar who developed the ARM7TDMI, Thumb, Thumb2. [VIDEO] Check at 51:30 where he says (bringing up the topic of RISC-V himself) “I would Google RISC-V and find out all about it. They’ve done a fine instruction set, a fine job […] it’s the state of the art now for 32-bit general purpose instruction sets. And it’s got the 16-bit compressed stuff. So, yeah, learning about that, you’re learning from the best.”

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