When I visited the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, the complete absence of any mention of ARM in their history of microcontrollers was slightly amusing. Lots of Motorola, Intel, etc silicon (including some really nice exhibits of half-made silicon ingots), but no mention of the architecture which has sold over 50 billion units.
I asked at reception and apparently yes, they do get funding from Intel...
Do go visit, though; it's brilliant. Not quite as good as the National Museum of Computing in the UK, which will let you go and play with a lot of the exhibits, and which has a working decatron computer, but it's still well worth a trip.
It's not quite that bad; there's an ARM1 die photo opposite the silicon ingots at the museum. I think the lack of ARM there is more due to the interesting artifacts being in England than an Intel conspiracy.
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No Acorn ARM? (eg as used in Acorn Archimedes, 1987)
It turned out to be more important than any of these.
edit: ah they have the ARM, but not until 1991 for some reason.
When I visited the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, the complete absence of any mention of ARM in their history of microcontrollers was slightly amusing. Lots of Motorola, Intel, etc silicon (including some really nice exhibits of half-made silicon ingots), but no mention of the architecture which has sold over 50 billion units.
I asked at reception and apparently yes, they do get funding from Intel...
Do go visit, though; it's brilliant. Not quite as good as the National Museum of Computing in the UK, which will let you go and play with a lot of the exhibits, and which has a working decatron computer, but it's still well worth a trip.
It's not quite that bad; there's an ARM1 die photo opposite the silicon ingots at the museum. I think the lack of ARM there is more due to the interesting artifacts being in England than an Intel conspiracy.