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Inventor of the ARM processor being honored

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By: , IntoMobile
Saturday, December 29th, 2007 at 8:21 AM

stevearm.jpgHave Apple’s iPhone or any S60 powered Nokia made in the past few years? Well congratulations, you have an ARM processor in your pocket. With the first chips rolling off the line in 1985, Dr. Steve Furber had no idea his little architecture would pave the way for the millions of cellphones and other small portable electronics that get sold every week. Furber is being honors by the BBC this new year for his original ARM equipped device called the BBC Microcomputer.

Funny thing is, the processing power in your pocket now would have been considered a supercomputer back in ’85. Steve recognizes this and says “the changes that we have seen over the last 30 years are small compared to what we will see in the next 30.”

I couldn’t agree with him more.

[Via: BBC]

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • JaXX

    I still remember poking around an ARM7TDMI which isn’t that old :-)

    (Actually, my “Old” SE P800 has one AFAIR, I haven’t charged it in over a year and it still turns on !)

  • Varun

    Wow.. Images how phones would have been without these processors ?

  • Toby

    He looks like he has the Krippin Virus.