ARM today 25

25 years ago, on November 27, 1990, the team that developed the ARM1, ARM2 and ARM3 microprocessors separated from Acorn Computers . Of those twelve co-founders, four continue to work at ARM to this day, among the nearly four thousand employees gathered from 71 countries of the world.

Until 1994, the entire ARM was located in a large shed in the village of Swaffham Bulbeck, 13 km from Cambridge; Now the company has more than forty offices scattered across twenty countries.


ARM does not release the processors itself; but in 25 years its partners have released 75 billion chips implementing one of the versions of the ARM architecture. This is an order of magnitude more than the number of bricks in the Great Wall of China!
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For five years - from the first released ARM1 processor to the founding of the ARM company - 130 thousand chips were manufactured. The first processor released by ARM separately from Acorn was the ARM610, designed specifically for use in the Apple Newton , a tablet computer that was ahead of its time. Disappointed with Newton's commercial failure, Apple abandoned the idea for a long 17 years; But Apple’s next tablet, the famous iPad, also used an ARM processor - Apple A4 based on the Cortex-A8. This year, ARM chips are released almost half a thousand pieces every second - about 13 billion over the past 11 months!

Approximately a quarter of all released chips falls on the ARM7TDMI processor, manufactured since 1998.



But the most impressive achievement is that on ARM's birthday, a post full of unjustified pessimism appeared on the “Habré's birthday” “Today’s world is amd64, armv7 and aarch64. Everything else is dead, Jim . "
According to the OpenBSD developer, two of the three living architectures today are ARM architectures!