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Acorn and the BBC Micro
- Acorn Computers won a bid to create a computer for schools in the UK.
- This computer, called the BBC Micro, was wildly successful, selling 1.5 million units.
Intel's Rejection
- Intel rejected Acorn's request to use their new 80286 processor.
- This rejection prompted Acorn to develop their own processor, which became the foundation of ARM.
Birth of ARM
- Sophie Wilson and her team at Acorn developed the ARM processor based on RISC architecture.
- This reduced instruction set computer offered comparable performance to Intel's processors but with lower cost and power consumption.