How ARM Saved Apple

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  • Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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  • @Chris-ty7fw
    @Chris-ty7fw Рік тому +213

    You missed the best story ...
    The best one is where they are testing the ARM chp and they realise they forgot to power it (turned out it was running off voltage leak from the rest of the circuit)
    The ARM 1 was a co processer to the BBC mico, most of the archimedes you showed where ARM 2 .
    The first system on a chip ARMs were in the later 3000 series Archimedes ARM 250 (video VIDC/audio was on the same chip)
    Nintendo had ARM very early to make a Game Boy follow up but didn't use it because the origonal game boy sold so well they used it later for the color then SP .
    The thumb 16bit memory controller you mention I believe was initially intended for the Nintendo.

    • @Scorpiove
      @Scorpiove Рік тому +11

      The Game Boy Color did not use an ARM chip but the Game Boy Advance and onward did.

    • @mistie710
      @mistie710 Рік тому +3

      Actually, the chip used in the Newton was the ARM 610, which was the same processor that was eventually used in the RiscPC range of Acorn computers. By that time the majority of Acorns had been using the ARM3, which was basically an ARM2 with a cache on the chip which was used on the A3000 and A4 laptop, and the ARM250 which was the original SoC combining the main ARM2 processor and all the support chips on one piece of silicon which was used in the A3010, A3020 and the A4000. The picture you showed when introducing the Archimedes was actually the A3000 which was the first machine to actually DROP the Archimedes name.

    • @patdbean
      @patdbean 11 місяців тому

      ​@@ScorpioveA3000 was ARM2 at 8mhz
      A4000 A3010 and A3020 were ARM250 at 12mhz
      A5000 was ARM 3 at 25 or 33mhz
      RISC PC Was ARM 6 at 30mhz later ARM 7 at 40mhz later strongARM at 233mhz

    • @TheSulross
      @TheSulross 11 місяців тому +3

      The main take away from this account of UK micro computer history is that Sophie is not a woman but a trans dude - when first was learning about UK micro computer history thought it was really cool that a woman had a prominent role - creating BBC BASIC and other really cool things. But no - Sophie was born a man. So nothing there to chalk up for women - not so surprisingly, all these cool achievements were due to men.

    • @patdbean
      @patdbean 11 місяців тому +1

      @@TheSulross how on earth is that the "main take away"? At most it is an interesting factoid.

  • @neanda
    @neanda Рік тому +11

    i love the background music, it really works well with your story.
    some youtubers just add bg music to fill in, whoevers adding this understands the emotion of the parts your saying. cool

  • @BPJJohn
    @BPJJohn 11 місяців тому

    We were the proud owners of a Acorn Computer at our Primary/Elementary school in the mid 90s this was one of the first experiences with a computer for us, everyone in our class loved it.

  • @lemdixon01
    @lemdixon01 Рік тому +96

    That's why my phone comes with chips and not french fries.

    • @tortysoft
      @tortysoft Рік тому

      I love that !

    • @johnhayward7173
      @johnhayward7173 11 місяців тому +3

      😂 ACorn(y) quip if ever I heard one.

    • @bigbang4674
      @bigbang4674 5 місяців тому

      And it use an arm processor

  • @ANDREWOCHI
    @ANDREWOCHI Рік тому +151

    this channel is my new obsession mahn

  • @anthonymacgregor9790
    @anthonymacgregor9790 Рік тому +31

    ARM name originally meant Acorn Risc Machine before the arm company was founded and the name becoming Advance Risc Machine

  • @bagpussmacfarlan9008
    @bagpussmacfarlan9008 Рік тому +18

    Funny hearing it called a zee x 81...it was the zed x 81 😊

  • @TheRelaxingRide
    @TheRelaxingRide Рік тому +70

    as a brit growing up at the time this is incredibly nostalgic and well researched. i always knew risc and *nix would live long through the wintel hype of latter years.

  • @abagatelle
    @abagatelle Рік тому +42

    Cambridge (England), the birthplace of the Raspberry Pi, the biggest selling British computer of all.

  • @kitersrefuge7353
    @kitersrefuge7353 Рік тому +52

    Thank you John. I am a developer and I lived through all of what you have so nicely now filled in for me. I remember RISC and its promise...but I did not know the twists and turns in your fascinating documentary. Fabulous thank you! I am British so it makes me doubly happy to know that a British woman with 800 lines of fantastic code, and a CEO with a brilliant business model never seen before, in both cases, have revolutionized the word, hand in hand with American smarts.

    • @nwaldschrat4099
      @nwaldschrat4099 11 місяців тому +6

      The women at that time was a man: Roger Wilson.

  • @Cdr_Mansfield_Cumming
    @Cdr_Mansfield_Cumming Рік тому +46

    I remember getting the BBC Microcomputer as a 12-year-old at school. The computer networking labs were rapidly expanding into our schools. I was lucky enough to get get an Acorn for my birthday, we played the most boring games and used basic language. I am now fortunate to have worked for Hermann Hauser in some of his best new tech companies. Today, I am working with Professor Steve Furber in AI development for the betterment of mankind.

    • @jwadaow
      @jwadaow Рік тому +1

      Is that in the University or in industry?

    • @Insectoid_
      @Insectoid_ Рік тому +3

      My dad was an IT teacher. We always had tonnes of them around. There were some great games on the BBC. I loved Repton :)

    • @kiyoponnn
      @kiyoponnn Рік тому +2

      There are those who will use AI for malicious purposes so please don't be naive by saying stuff like "for the betterment of humankind"

    • @MorganMadej
      @MorganMadej Рік тому

      WoW!

    • @MorganMadej
      @MorganMadej Рік тому +2

      ​@@kiyoponnnWhy be Malicious? Everyone is entitled to express oneself. You are the one with a problem!

  • @cutsign
    @cutsign Рік тому +136

    Highest quality and good content as always John.

    • @KaiseruSoze
      @KaiseruSoze Рік тому +1

      Compliments vs constructive criticism. He knows it's good. How can it be better?

    • @cutsign
      @cutsign Рік тому +4

      @@KaiseruSoze can it get better than this?

  • @tortysoft
    @tortysoft Рік тому +73

    ARM was initially Acorn Risc Machines.
    I worked at the BBC in the UK, bought a BBC Micro and then an Archimedes. I wrote about all of them in magazines. I wrote programming tutors for the Arc. I'm not a business person. That's why I'm not rich.

  • @franciscopires3806
    @franciscopires3806 Рік тому +15

    Great video, but you should have mentioned Steve Furber, the original chip designer

  • @fwm983
    @fwm983 Рік тому +28

    John is epic with his titles 😁

  • @KarlHamilton
    @KarlHamilton Рік тому +11

    Correction. ARM = Acorn RISC Machine. They changed it to Advanced later on.

    • @tortysoft
      @tortysoft Рік тому +4

      - and did their very best to hide the original A name.

  • @thelastdruidofscotland
    @thelastdruidofscotland Рік тому +19

    My School, Woodlands High School, Falkirk, was the first in the world to be fully equipped with RISC powered Acorn Archimedes computers, I remember a whole lorry turning up with over 300 pc's, courtesy of the oil giant BP, who ran the local refinery, these RISC computers had capabilities we could only dream of, but one things stands out, a desktop Acorn 3010 rendering a fully 3d world in realtime, without having to pay over £14,000 for an SG server was staggering, and just pointed to how powerful RISC systems could be, and here we are, nearly 30 years later, with ARM dominating the chip market, simply because the underlying architure is so efficient, its no wonder APPLE dumped Intel, and took the modular RISC architure and molded it into the most efficient chips the world have seen to date.

    • @uku4171
      @uku4171 Рік тому

      Do you think RISC-V could become nearly as popular or overtake ARM?

    • @honkhonk8009
      @honkhonk8009 Рік тому

      Tbf modern X86 architectures are pretty similar to arm.
      I heard compilers are gonna ship mostly risc instructions to x86 now. Their optimized for risc operations more than cisc ones now.

  • @ianig9
    @ianig9 Рік тому +10

    I used a BBC Micro in secondary school. So many great memories coding and playing games.

  • @dennisp8520
    @dennisp8520 Рік тому +161

    Man it’s crazy how different history could be if just one thing changed. ARM is so vital to so many things even outside of mobile. The routers that people use to provide internet all run off ARM, cars rely on ARM. Heck even laptops like the MacBook are reliant on ARM now.

    • @uku4171
      @uku4171 Рік тому +14

      Do you think RISC-V could become nearly as popular as ARM? Would there be downsides?

    • @KaiseruSoze
      @KaiseruSoze Рік тому +5

      Have a look at a vector processor.

    • @SianaGearz
      @SianaGearz Рік тому +8

      I think as many home routers run MIPS as ARM. Fundamentally if it wasn't ARM, it would have been Super-H or MIPS or a combination of both.

    • @iAPX432
      @iAPX432 Рік тому +3

      Apple's MacBook are not reliant on ARM, only on ARM ISA (from years ago).
      ARM could disappear tomorrow that wouldn't change the ability for Apple to create new chips for a long time, and in fact this might be beneficial for them as no longer obligated to respect ARM ISA and IP.

    • @crashniels
      @crashniels Рік тому

      ​@@uku4171once it becomes performant it will be popular since it doesn't have any fees or very little compared to what companies have to pay for arm. Google is already preparing Android for it.

  • @CommandLineCowboy
    @CommandLineCowboy Рік тому +13

    9:43 The Archimedes had an ARM2 processor, not ARM1. The ARM2 was slightly faster at 8Mhz compared to 6, and it had hardware multiplication and a fast interrupt mode.

  •  Рік тому +13

    Great video. I think it just forgot to mention the big participation ARM is getting in the cloud. The advantages are huge. For the same performance clients are getting almost half the price because of energy savings. I am really enthusiastic about this trend. I’m also curious about how Intel will react since the x86 architecture is fundamentally less efficient than ARM.

  • @dotsovertonesinging
    @dotsovertonesinging Рік тому +63

    In the early days (in my home country, Nigeria), we have an investment bank called ARM. In marketing for them we often encounter the ARM processor company but felt safe because the markers are different. Great video!

    • @iuc7254
      @iuc7254 Рік тому +12

      Cool to see another Nigerian in this corner of the internet❤

    • @ibrahim4717
      @ibrahim4717 Рік тому +8

      I'm Ghannaian

    • @MetalRocksMe.
      @MetalRocksMe. Рік тому +1

      I’m both 🙂

  • @savagepro9060
    @savagepro9060 Рік тому +14

    John Coogan: Your iPhone Is Secretly British
    The British: We know nothing about that!

    • @hanniffydinn6019
      @hanniffydinn6019 Рік тому +8

      I’ve known since I was a kid! Computer enthusiasts know! 🤯🤯🤯

    • @TehKaiser
      @TehKaiser Рік тому +2

      You might think that, I couldn't possibly comment.

    • @tortysoft
      @tortysoft Рік тому +1

      When Acorn went bust, I kept myself sane with the knowledge the ARM was in EVERYTHING. BBC BASIC - by Sophie Wilson is a great programming language by the way.

    • @hanniffydinn6019
      @hanniffydinn6019 Рік тому

      @@tortysoft technically ARM was so successful it was spin off into its own company, with apple ownership. So ARM is technically acorn still, especially when you remember ARM meant Acorn RISC Machine….they changed the acorn to advanced, but it’s acorn RISC machines really!! 🤯🤯🤯

    • @tortysoft
      @tortysoft Рік тому

      As you may see, I said that too.@@hanniffydinn6019

  • @tenbob1972
    @tenbob1972 Рік тому +4

    Steve Furbar did the architecture and the electronics. Roger Wilson (his name before his sex change) did the instruction set. This video does Furbar an injustice. do some fact checking you will then understand Furbur's part in all this then release a updated fact correct version of your video.

    • @AndrewRoberts11
      @AndrewRoberts11 Рік тому +2

      Steve Furbar, in addition to the physical design for ARM, also did the hardware side of the Acorn Atom, Proton, and BBC Micro. (Roger | Sophie) writing the BASIC, COMAL, ... language interpreters. The likes of Hugo Tyson writing the "advanced disk filing system" used by the BBC, Archimedes, RISC-PC, ... and a test suite, with notorious error messages, for the logical and physical designs of the the pair (Digital's engineers didn't appreciate the automated, profanity laden, critique of their best efforts).
      Also the ARM 1 shipped in just a developers evaluation kit / 2nd processor (sidecar) for the BBC micro range. The Archimedes initially shipping with an 8MHz ARM2, in 1987, and 25+ MHz ARM3 silicon, from 1989. The follow on RISC-PC shipped with ARM6, ARM7, and Digital StrongARM CPU's, at up-to 233 MHz, from 1993.
      Anyway Johnny Ive was the one who saved Apple, through his novel iMac, iPod, iPhone, ... designs. The ARM based iPod later bringing in more revenue, than the sale of ARM stock.

  • @vernearase3044
    @vernearase3044 Рік тому +16

    Actually, the Apple Silicon processors are based on the ARM _instruction set,_ not on ARM's processor IP.
    The AS processors are home grown CPUs with ARM instruction set compatibility, but do _not_ use ARM designed CPU cores.

    • @megatronskneecap
      @megatronskneecap Рік тому +7

      The first A5 processor in the iPhone 4 was entirely ARM based. Along with the Samsung processors in the iPhone 2G to 3GS.

    • @vernearase3044
      @vernearase3044 Рік тому +8

      @@megatronskneecap I'm talking modern Apple Silicon processors - the term Apple Silicon processor was not even coined until the 'M' series of SoCs were introduced.
      AFAIK, Apple Silicon CPU cores are more efficient and faster than any ARM reference cores.
      Heck, I _think_ that ARMv6 was developed _at Apple's request_ since ARMv5 was unoptimizable due to the inability to schedule long instruction pipelines for use with an out of order execution unit.

    • @lawrencedoliveiro9104
      @lawrencedoliveiro9104 Рік тому +1

      Apple machines only seem to get their performance by tying everything together into a monolithic mass, so you can’t upgrade anything. Basically all their machines now are glorified laptops.

    • @vernearase3044
      @vernearase3044 Рік тому +1

      @@lawrencedoliveiro9104 They get their performance with incredibly deep instruction pipelines - 690 instructions for the A13's Firestorm - and an extremely wide CPU with a massive reorder buffer and eight decoders capable of executing up to eight instructions simultaneously.
      Using unified memory shared by all components of the SoC, the CPU shares memory with the GPU eliminating the Wintel graphics overhead of transferring data from CPU to graphics memory. Because the memory is along-side the chip, they achieve memory access speeds well beyond what you can get in the Wintel world which is pretty much limited to about 50 GB/sec.
      They also contain IP blocks sharing the same memory which are capable of hardware encode/decode of various video formats and carry with them a world class image signal processor and an integrated neural engine (which also shares the same memory) for machine learning tasks.
      There's nothing in the architecture relating to laptops - though they do make marvelous laptops. If you want to call them glorified _anything_ call 'em glorified game consoles which also take advantage of unified memory. The memory architecture of standard Wintel machines is based more on marketing silos than performance-directed structures - this allows mother board vendors, CPU vendors, GPU vendors, and memory vendors to independently sell you their products and ties them together with much lower performance interconnects.

    • @honkhonk8009
      @honkhonk8009 Рік тому +2

      @@megatronskneecap When the guy says Apple Silicon, he means the chips that Apple makes themselves.
      No shit previous Iphones are gonna use ARM lol.
      ARM doesnt make chips exactly, they just sell the ISA license.

  • @bell1095
    @bell1095 Рік тому +1

    Maybe you dont know: The background-sound works like a chinese water torture. It spoils your content work and forces to escape from watching your vid.😢

  • @julianfp1952
    @julianfp1952 Рік тому +12

    A good video and I love to see this story told to a wider audience. I do think you have the emphasis slightly wrong in a couple of places though. Minor points that don't undermine the overall worth of this great video, but for what it's worth...
    It is fair to mention Sophie Wilson a lot, she was indeed the driving force behind the ARM instruction set (those familiar with her and her coding style can actually see some of her personality in the instruction set!). Having said that though Steve Furber played a big part in the logic level design and also in the design of the BBC micro. I think anyone in Acorn at the time (e.g. me) would consider the ARM design as primarily a joint effort between Sophie and Steve.
    Additionally you say that the actual chip was designed by VLSI. It was fabricated by VLSI but the physical chip layout was done at Acorn and the final tape-out then sent to VLSI for fabrication. Although there was of course a lot of cross-pollination of ideas, broadly speaking Sophie did the overall instruction set architecture, Steve Furber translated that to the higher level logic design, and then a small 3 (or was it 4; I forget) person in-house Acorn team led by Jamie Urquhart - located in the same building as Sophie and Steve (and me) - did the physical chip layout to be sent to VLSI for fabrication.
    The other small niggle that I have is that personally from the perspective of someone in the AR&D group at the time I'd say that you get the emphasis slightly wrong between Chris Curry and Hermann Hauser. For us (the technical folks) Hermann was always the driving force at least as far as the technology was concerned, often wandering round the building in the evenings chatting to people still there, and Chris Curry was seen as the sales and commercial guy with little input to the technical side of things.

  • @stargazeronesixseven
    @stargazeronesixseven Рік тому +12

    Yes , many F1 Teams are based in the UK & many products we used today were designed by British designers & UK based Recording Studios produced some of the High Fidelity recordings we enjoy today! Many British or UK actors , actresses & musicians helped many American Movie Studios to be as successful as of today! 🙏 Thank You So Much & God Blessed UK 🇬🇧 ... 🌷🌿🌎💜🕊🇬🇧

  • @DigitalNomadOnFIRE
    @DigitalNomadOnFIRE Рік тому +4

    A fruit machine is just the English name for a slot machine.

  • @peterc.1419
    @peterc.1419 Рік тому +3

    It's secretly British but then all semiconductors are secretly Polish because of Jan Czochralski

  • @toshe.6690
    @toshe.6690 11 місяців тому +3

    so the UK had world class company playing a massive part in the mobile phone industry and then the government came up with the fantastic idea of allowing it to be asset stripped.

  • @CrimsonAlchemist
    @CrimsonAlchemist Рік тому +2

    So basically Japanese company now own ARM via Softbank so it's a Japanese company now.

  • @hanniffydinn6019
    @hanniffydinn6019 Рік тому +4

    Micro men is an excellent docudrama about this amazing era! 🤯🤯🤯😎😎😎👍👍👍

  • @Neuri
    @Neuri Рік тому +5

    I was born in Sheffield in 1979 and at school we had a bbc micro I used all the time! We had an MSX at home to play games and before that a ROWTRON!

  • @rinaldoselvanathan4193
    @rinaldoselvanathan4193 Рік тому +6

    This was a rollercoaster through my childhood....had a sinclair spectrum, played with a BBC micro at school, then an acorn achimedes at school for which i did loads of word processing/ gaming, bought an olivetti pc.......fastfoward to 2000s and watched BBC micromen film/documentary about the clash between sinclair and curry and then only realised the significance !!
    ...great documentary !!

  • @CozumelTy
    @CozumelTy Рік тому +3

    Ummm but does everyone forget Apple helped start ARM Holdings when they made the Newton and helped save Apple and ARM.

  • @portman8909
    @portman8909 Рік тому +2

    Thatcher was awful. She's the reason fiber optic broadband wasn't mainstream.

  • @OverDriveOnline7921
    @OverDriveOnline7921 Рік тому +6

    The ARM1 was never released, it was the initial development prototype, and lacked a number of mathematical functions and lacked some commands, it was the ARM2 that appeared in the Archimedes in 1987 and continued to power the archimedes until the early 1990’s.

    • @paul_boddie
      @paul_boddie Рік тому +3

      The ARM1 was released as part of the ARM Evaluation System: a second processor expansion for the BBC Micro.

    • @tortysoft
      @tortysoft Рік тому +1

      That was the one product for which I did not write a review@@paul_boddie

  • @samuelkimuhu1916
    @samuelkimuhu1916 Рік тому +2

    😂Am I the only one who noticed the title changed?

  • @s3_build
    @s3_build Рік тому +5

    "On a per line basis [those 808 lines of code] that might be the most valuable code ever written." is crazy. My new goal for the next *checks notes* 122 work days, is to watch a John Coogan video every day. Let's see how far I get in this challenge lol.

    • @uku4171
      @uku4171 Рік тому +2

      easier binge it in like 2 weekends lol

  • @johnhaworth4387
    @johnhaworth4387 Рік тому +3

    Ive worked in Robin saxbys apartment in Liverpool. Cool place 3 floors. For some reason we called him Mr Microchip. Now i know why 😀 cool video ✌🏼

  • @mads7401
    @mads7401 Рік тому +10

    Thanks for the story, will be interesting to see if Microsoft will fully support ARM in the future.

    • @emiliapeabea
      @emiliapeabea Рік тому

      windows supports arm?

    • @uku4171
      @uku4171 Рік тому +1

      What do you mean by "fully support"?

    • @Dave102693
      @Dave102693 Рік тому

      @@uku4171only a few third party apps are natively recompiled for their arm os.

    • @JohnGeorgeBauerBuis
      @JohnGeorgeBauerBuis 11 місяців тому

      @@uku4171I’m guessing having the latest DirectX API versions, that’s really the only thing Windows on ARM lacks for New Technology (legacy drivers are not supported on ARM for compatibility reasons).

  • @give_me_my_nick_back
    @give_me_my_nick_back Рік тому +13

    well I must admit the computer education was a huge success! the UK has became the global programming powerhouse by the early 90s!

  • @eyez73
    @eyez73 Рік тому +2

    I still have my BBC Micro model B working in my office :)

  • @ArthurOgawa-q9z
    @ArthurOgawa-q9z Рік тому +5

    Excellent storytelling, John. Viewers might get the impression that RISC was something new with Acorn. But it has a history, grounded in the Control Data Corporation's computers going back to the 1960s, like the CDC6600 that I used. My cheatsheet for reading memory dumps was handwritten on the blank side of a Hollerith punchcard, so short the instruction set was. These computers (which ultimately morphed into the Cray supercomputers) were all based on discrete component hardware (i.e., not integrated circuits). Very old school.
    Other commenters here have mentioned Hewlett-Packard's PA-RISC and the MIPS chips. ARM is inspiring because having carried the RISC torch forward in the face of entrenched CISC architecture as exemplified by intel's x86 family. Up with RISC, down with CISC!

  • @aescubed
    @aescubed Рік тому +2

    British names are s understated. "Winter of Discontent". "The Troubles". Haha.

  • @richard8181
    @richard8181 Рік тому +3

    My first computer was a Sinclair Zx80 then the Spectrum great learning machines 🇦🇺

  • @Hans_Magnusson
    @Hans_Magnusson Рік тому +2

    I actually had a ZX-80. I bought it in 1979 as I remember it. Had Z80 processor and 1k RAM, persistent storage: interface to a home tape recorder, screen: TV antenna outlet
    Language: Basic
    If you wrote a large enough program, the code interfered with the screen buffer effectively erasing what was shown on the screen.
    😂😂😂😂
    But it sure worked
    There was two options: assemble it by yourself, or pre-assembled.

    • @GodmanchesterGoblin
      @GodmanchesterGoblin Рік тому

      ZX80 launched 29th Jan 1980, but close. I ordered my kit at a computer show in the February. It was an amazing time in the UK computer revolution.

    • @tortysoft
      @tortysoft Рік тому

      My first UK101, 6502 invaders game shot bullets in to the code if I missed ...

    • @GodmanchesterGoblin
      @GodmanchesterGoblin Рік тому

      @tortysoft Aah, the UK101... Never had one, but they seemed to be in many of the hobby magazines back in the day.

  • @sonnyng9701
    @sonnyng9701 Рік тому +1

    This video provides an interesting chronicle of the ARM architecture evolution but are riddled with sensationalist, distorted claims bordering misinformation. No, Apple is not secretly British! ARM, the family of RISC instruction set architectures (ISAs) that Apple uses in its CPUs for mobile devices like the iPhones and iPads since 2006 and more recently in the company's M-chips (from X86-64 to ARM64 ISA) powering Mac laptops over the past three years, indeed originates in the UK in the early 1980s. It's like saying that because vital component like the 5nm CPU of the recent iPhones is made by TSMC, then it means that Apple is secretly Taiwanese, or Samsung-made memory or OLED screen infers that Apple is secretly a Korean company. Apple components are sorted from thousands of vendors from N. America, Europe and Asia--some of whom are, as forementioned, Apple's biggest rivals. Hence, it's not ARM chips but Apple chips using ARM instruction sets (ISAs)! ARM based CPUs are extremely power-efficient and therefore ideal for small computing devices that consume less power in a small form factor like cellphone. As Li batteries become more powerful and in particular Intel X86 based chips start to fall behind TSMC (in addition to Intel other troubles like its modem), Apple decides to make the switch of the Mac line of laptops and iMac desktops to its own CPU, Apple Silicon, based on ARM64 architecture.

  • @shantanusingh6744
    @shantanusingh6744 Рік тому +4

    My dream came true, when I started working for this amazing company. ❤

  • @Drunken_Master
    @Drunken_Master Рік тому +4

    One of the best video games ever - Elite, was originally released on BBC Micro.

  • @rajanacharya1135
    @rajanacharya1135 Рік тому +4

    No huss, no fuss, to the point with no super-complicated tech jargons. Excellent video explaining the story a tech company.

  • @accumulator5734
    @accumulator5734 29 днів тому +1

    At this point ARM is just making the definitions for the instructions and Apple is engineering the processor circuitry for iPhones.

  • @Archimedes75009
    @Archimedes75009 Рік тому +5

    It's not the ARM1 that was in the Archimedes, it's the ARM2, and then the ARM3, then the 1st ever SOC, the ARM250.
    Apple was interested by the ARM6, that's what Acorn used in their RISC PC range.
    Sinclair had the Spectrum at the time, not the ZX81, to enter the competition to get the BBC contract.
    All in all it's not a bad video, but it could have been more faithful.
    Not a word about Steve Furber, the original ARM designer, is ... questionable to say the least.
    Your view about ARM is very US and Apple centered ( You always have the tendency to think you're the center of the world, that's a real concern, it makes all your reasoning biased ).
    Without Apple ARM would have thrived anyway : Apple wasn't the sole customer of ARM chips / technology.

    • @daholmes1
      @daholmes1 Рік тому +3

      Did ARM not originally stand for ‘Acorn Risc Machine’ as well.

    • @jamessutton9323
      @jamessutton9323 Рік тому

      yes@@daholmes1

  • @peterschaeffer
    @peterschaeffer Рік тому +4

    ARM has done quite well of late. Microsoft and AWS (Amazon Web Services) now offer ARM as an alternative. As the video indicates, ARM rules all of mobile (and will for the foreseeable future). The general shift to high-level languages favors ARM. For example, Java programs (jar files) don’t have to be recompiled for ARM. The same holds for Python and other languages. By contrast, C/C++ compiles into binaries that run on x86 or ARM, but not both. However, ARM has lost out in one key area. That is AI. Nvidia, not ARM, dominates AI and will for the foreseeable future.

    • @honkhonk8009
      @honkhonk8009 Рік тому

      Yeah but RISCV prolly would be the future tbh.
      ARM and RISCV dont differ by that much so the translation isnt that insane.

    • @peterschaeffer
      @peterschaeffer Рік тому

      @@honkhonk8009 I don't think RISC-V is going anywhere soon. I see ARM all over the place. Smartphones are typically ARM based. AWS (Amazon Web Services) actually gives me a choice of using Intel servers or ARM servers. My kids have iPads. Of course, they are ARM based. The current generation of Macs use ARM. Arduino provides another example. Atmel, ARM, and Intel are supported. RISC-V is not.

    • @felixlungu1763
      @felixlungu1763 Рік тому

      @@peterschaeffer RISC-V is supported by Arduino and there are cips wich is implementing risc-v (Espressif esp32-c3, SiFive FE310, ..) that run on Arduino frameworks.

  • @KarlHamilton
    @KarlHamilton Рік тому +2

    It's pronounced Z, not zee.

  • @gustavinus
    @gustavinus Рік тому +2

    "They never made a single chip". I think they used to make chips in the Acorn era. Being fabless is also kind of normal in this sector.

  • @jamessutton9323
    @jamessutton9323 Рік тому +4

    Roger Wilson designed the instruction set and the Basic interpreter. Steve Furber led the ARM hardware design team. They passed the cpu block design to the in-house VLSI team. Also we designed video controller (VIDC) and memory controller (MEMC) chips. There were about six of us. VLSI technology provided the design tools and manufacture. They did not design the chip.

  • @andres.estrada
    @andres.estrada Рік тому +5

    This is the most valuable channel, I’ve learned crazy amounts of information and my mind is now blown by how big is the world and how much tech has helped, even for me that work daily with tech and animation
    Congrats man, this is gold

  • @BookerCan
    @BookerCan Рік тому +1

    Pfff, The Nintendo Game Boy advance was running ARM processors before having ARM processors were cool.

  • @rursus8354
    @rursus8354 Рік тому +1

    There is no sign whatsoever that Apple is saved. It is still living on borrowed time.

  • @patrikfloding7985
    @patrikfloding7985 Рік тому +1

    If only ARM was actually British still. Now, I'm not planning to watch all of that, but there are other RISC architectures, and I'm sure Apple and the rest would use something else if ARM didn't exist. (And it would be a level playing field, anyway, if ARM didn't exist, as they ALL use ARM derivatives for now.)

  • @G11713
    @G11713 Рік тому +1

    4:40 The project was lead by Sophie Wilson...would stayed up all night to soldering...it made Chris Curry and Herman Hauser millionaires. Ahh, capitalism where hard work pays off.

  • @3Ramzes
    @3Ramzes Рік тому +8

    The macbook M1 is a revolutionary product, which makes me feel sorry ARM chips didn't enter main computer market years earlier!

    • @tortysoft
      @tortysoft Рік тому +1

      Just wait for the M3...
      My BBC Micro (6502) still works - I think.

    • @Teluric2
      @Teluric2 11 місяців тому

      ​@@tortysoftthey said wait m2 and nothing will happen.

    • @tortysoft
      @tortysoft 11 місяців тому

      Announcement tomorrow...30/10/23@@Teluric2

  • @anteeko
    @anteeko Рік тому +1

    click bait title?
    And ARM licensed processor don't make a product british..

  • @agmg3059
    @agmg3059 Рік тому +1

    This is true but don’t forget ASML that makes the equipment for producing this Micropocesors Netherland Company

  • @ThisWontEndWell
    @ThisWontEndWell Рік тому +2

    Nice to see a telling of this story that just lets Sophie Wilson exist without the side story.

    • @Peter_S_
      @Peter_S_ 11 місяців тому +2

      It's rather amazing how unknown her side story is though. She will forever be a giant among giants.

  • @Owen_aesh
    @Owen_aesh Рік тому +1

    Idk if it's just me but younes saying younes saying a woman can't handle a mens locker room rubbed me the wrong way..I'm sure he didn't mean it with malice but it's a weird statement to make

  • @kirishima638
    @kirishima638 Рік тому +2

    Was it really necessary to out Sophie Wilson as trans? This was 45 years ago.
    What was the point of printing her old name?

    • @jamieangus-whiteoak3656
      @jamieangus-whiteoak3656 11 місяців тому +1

      @kirishima638 Agreed! Deadnaming her was disrespectful, hurtful, and unnecessary!

    • @kirishima638
      @kirishima638 11 місяців тому

      @@jamieangus-whiteoak3656 so does her wiki page, sadly.

  • @NickRoper
    @NickRoper Рік тому +1

    Anyone in secondary school in the 90’s remembers IT lessons on a BBC micro!

  • @yougallini
    @yougallini Рік тому +1

    It’s pronounced “zed ex 81” not “zee ex 81” btw 🇬🇧 😂 - great video

  • @gobshite99
    @gobshite99 Рік тому +2

    I still have a zx spectrum and BBC micro at home ❤

  • @akirhamza
    @akirhamza Рік тому +1

    In the UK, Android continues to gain share over competitors. This year, 28.9 million people in the UK will use an Android smartphone, representing 59.4% of total UK smartphone users (48.7million). Currently, the iPhone is the second most popular device, representing 40.4% of users (19.7million)

  • @f1rstprinciple
    @f1rstprinciple Рік тому +1

    Hmm, I designed a PCB for VLSI Technologies around late 80's or very early 90's

  • @hendrix2478
    @hendrix2478 Рік тому +1

    Back when the BBC were for the people.. And oh my, times has changed. 😢

  • @gooddypm
    @gooddypm Рік тому +1

    AAAHHHH! THE Acorn A3000 was the bane of my high school life.

  • @savagepro9060
    @savagepro9060 Рік тому +4

    Your iPhone is actually a British ARM-bassy!

  • @dotpenji
    @dotpenji Рік тому +3

    What a fascinating journey through the history of tech! I'm genuinely amazed by the way this video revealed the remarkable evolution of the tech industry and the pivotal role that ARM played in shaping it. The story of ARM's innovative processor designs and their impact on various devices, including Apple's, is truly remarkable. One key takeaway for me is how ARM's business model, which focuses on designing and licensing its processor designs rather than manufacturing, has allowed it to become a powerhouse in the industry. It's incredible to think that ARM's technology is at the heart of so many of the devices we use every day.

  • @DerkDerglass
    @DerkDerglass Рік тому +2

    Everything is secretly British

  • @MrDDawson
    @MrDDawson Рік тому +1

    Calling it British cause it uses a cpu first designed in the UK is a massive stretch. Wow.

  • @universalhead
    @universalhead Рік тому +3

    Interesting, I always wondered what the printed ARM script was on STM32F chips on drone flight control boards. Cool video.

  • @s-codes14
    @s-codes14 Рік тому +3

    what's wrong with being British

    • @highdefinitionstanleytm9614
      @highdefinitionstanleytm9614 Рік тому

      Nothing is wrong with being British Infact everything is great as the clue is in the name.

    • @savagepro9060
      @savagepro9060 Рік тому

      @@highdefinitionstanleytm9614 It use to be . . . Great Britain, but they lost the 'GREAT'

  • @ajb7530
    @ajb7530 Рік тому +3

    Thats incredible. ARM just took over one of the most important pieces of any kind of computer. Great video as always, John. I keep coming back.

  • @phalanx-it
    @phalanx-it Рік тому +1

    Jonathan 'Jonny' Ive, the guy who designed and developed the iPod and iPhone (both powered by ARM) is also a Brit.

    • @Teluric2
      @Teluric2 11 місяців тому

      He designed the skin or looks not the inner working

  • @DigitalNomadOnFIRE
    @DigitalNomadOnFIRE Рік тому +1

    Yes 1979 in the UK was very important, I was born in that year in Cambridge.

  • @Sb129
    @Sb129 Рік тому +1

    Lol, we're just pretending that there weren't smartphones using ARM CPU's before the first iPhone? Lmao.

    • @lucabarbagallo7313
      @lucabarbagallo7313 5 місяців тому

      16:06
      yeah they do talk about it. Mentioning Nokia

  • @pokeman260
    @pokeman260 Рік тому +1

    So you’re saying the Apple Newton is one of the most important tech products ever?

  • @ChrisMcDonough
    @ChrisMcDonough Рік тому +1

    Apple already released a computer with a processor by a direct competitor: MOS Technologies, owned by Commodore for the 6502.

    • @FadkinsDiet
      @FadkinsDiet Рік тому +1

      The apple i had been on sale for a few months when Commodore bought MOS.

  • @kishorbose7854
    @kishorbose7854 3 місяці тому +1

    This is beginning the end of Intel . Like nokia

  • @Semtex777
    @Semtex777 Рік тому +2

    STM32 is ARM and is STM32 is everywhere, the king of IoT

  • @cpcnw
    @cpcnw Рік тому +1

    Watch 'MicroMen' - a docudrama about Sinclair and Acorn

  • @h3llosammanGamingRoblox7
    @h3llosammanGamingRoblox7 Рік тому +3

    we

  • @tusharsonvani7491
    @tusharsonvani7491 Рік тому +11

    I love the backstory narrated by John. I knew about the ARM architecture being used by apple to lead the personal computing revolution but this is a great video to learn the backstory, thanks John!

    • @seaman5705
      @seaman5705 Рік тому +1

      Apple didn't use ARM architecture ""to lead the personal computing revolution" and they didn't lead this revolution , they were just a member of it . I would say IBM and clones leaded personal computer revolution .
      Apple used mainly PowerPC processors when it became relevant . ARM architecture was used later in mobile devices .
      Only now is Apple using ARM architecture for personal computers .

    • @nnnnnn3647
      @nnnnnn3647 Рік тому +1

      It's funny that the most important woman in this story is a man. ;)

    • @jamieangus-whiteoak3656
      @jamieangus-whiteoak3656 11 місяців тому

      @@nnnnnn3647 and your point is exactly…?

    • @nnnnnn3647
      @nnnnnn3647 11 місяців тому

      @@jamieangus-whiteoak3656 Can't you read? The woman indicated as an important figure in the history of computer science (Sophie Wilson) is actually a man.
      I think it's funny.

  • @dezent
    @dezent Рік тому +2

    No RISC no fun!

  • @Larry
    @Larry Рік тому

    Always play the waiting game on if an American channel mispronounces ZX Spectrum. :D

  • @AlanTheBeast100
    @AlanTheBeast100 Рік тому +1

    I dispute the notion that Apple would not be what it is today absent the ARM.
    The need for small microprocessors/controllers would have outed as a different product.
    Not mentioned in this video is that ARM processors are in plain sight unrecognized: all sorts of devices use ARM processors, some of them in packages the size of a match head. Thermostats, garage door controllers, routers, ... an endless list.
    What's with the audio echo on this video?

  • @Insectoid_
    @Insectoid_ Рік тому +1

    Ahhh the Archimedes. I loved that computer.

  • @kimtongkh4482
    @kimtongkh4482 2 місяці тому +1

    England was the mother of US

  • @autotechandspecs
    @autotechandspecs Рік тому +2

    13:47 the Simpsons part 😂😂

  • @waynesworldofsci-tech
    @waynesworldofsci-tech Рік тому +6

    I’m in awe of Sophie Wilson. What an engineer!