Have 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]