I hope it's true but I also hope we don't end up with every company selling its own CPU that works only with their own software.
Something like what we have now with x84/amd64 but with more companies on the game.
Something like what we have now with x84/amd64 but with more companies on the game.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-11-28-fi-4993-s...
"Apple has invested about $3 million (roughly 1.5 million pounds) for a 30% interest in the company"
Also from that link, this amusing sentence: "Some analysts speculated that Apple might be eyeing ARM chips for use in a future notebook-sized computer"
https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/06/09/how-arm-has-alrea...
Do you have anything pre-dating this nonsense article which says it was 43%?
http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/201...
Edit: Ah I see Cult of Mac quoted Hauser. Well Hauser was a director of Acorn at the time. Also Robin Saxby talks about Apple and Acorn investing $1.5m and VLSI $250k so with some shares for staff that would be about 43%.
Saxby talks about £1.5M from Apple and according to https://fxtop.com/en/historical-currency-converter.php?A=150..., £1.5M is just about $3M which I guess clears up the $3M number.
> In the late 1980s, Apple Computer and VLSI Technology started working with Acorn on newer versions of the ARM core. In 1990, Acorn spun off the design team into a new company named Advanced RISC Machines Ltd.,[30][31][32] which became ARM Ltd when its parent company, Arm Holdings plc, floated on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ in 1998.[33] The new Apple-ARM work would eventually evolve into the ARM6, first released in early 1992. Apple used the ARM6-based ARM610 as the basis for their Apple Newton PDA.