Sophie told me decades ago that they wanted a new processor to execute games running in BBC BASIC that was as fast as BBC Micro machine code.

A noble aim.... :-)

Also.
Did you know that the recent conversions of old black and white TV programmes into colour was done with the help of BBC BASIC scripts.

Some of us have never forgotten BBC BASIC V.

Peter Dawe: "Arm make 5x the number of cpus as Intel and has a market capitalisation of $2b
Intel is worth $85b"

ARM don't make any CPUs. Other people make them under licence. Do your homework!

"Lets redefine great business model!"

It's more appropriate to compare how much value ARM creates for itself and its partners against how much Intel creates for itself and its partners. Intel certainly withholds more value than ARM does, but that doesn't necessarily equate to undisputed business superiority.

"... the success could never have happened without ARM chief executive Robin Saxby. "His licensing model was just as important as ARM technology."

Arm make 5x the number of cpus as Intel and has a market capitalisation of $2b
Intel is worth $85b

Lets redefine great business model!

@bigger_luddite,

It's not quite as British as you would think. ARM's got big design centres everywhere and even the Cambridge office is considerably foreign.

@Hieronymus P. Organthruster

Won't you believe it, where I come from, you would pronounce the 'l' in would.

I'm happy to see the success of small and simple, but since it's British, I can't help but suspect there's a little puddle of electrons under every one of these chips, just as there used to be a little puddle of crankcase oil under every Triumph, MG, and Norton.

Was that a thinly veiled "would"?

Am I supposed to feel good about my Samsung Windows Mobile phone now, then? Great - it falls over on telecons and email, but it'll run 18-year old BBC Basic scripts. Woo.

And thats just an ARM. What would it be when it grows into a full body :-)

ARM really wasn't more than just another processor core. Still is. But where ARM succeeded was really quite simple. It was cheap. Dirt cheap. Still is dirt cheap. In a World of scaling economies, cheap matters a lot. Especially in the embeded processor part of that World. That's the only reason ARM is so big today.

A bunch of comedians making fun of Professor Stephen Hawking's electronic voice, then Frankie Boyle said, imagine Stephen Hawking watching thirs programme and thinking, "What would I have to have done for them NOT to make fun of me."

Well done Mrs ARM!

wouldn't