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points by ChrisRR 2 days ago | 0 comments
Yes and no. Apple was a co founder when ARM was spun off from Acorn and the ARM processor already existed for 5 years.

Acorn supplied the engineers, VLSI supplied the manufacturing, Apple supplied the money

[–] simondotau 1 day ago
Fair, but that money is a linchpin. Having the vision to see a commercial application and the will to fund its development into a real product is equally pivotal to the bringing about of a thing —- even if we engineers sometimes struggle to see it that way.
[–] alt227 1 day ago
Apples investment track record in the 90s differs with your opinion that they were future seeing oracles who brought pre-ordained projects into existence. Hell they even sold their shares in ARM 5 years later, so they obviously didnt think that much of it.

https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/high-tech-gadg...

[–] simondotau 1 day ago
It was a victim of being associated with a failed product line and a failed corporate era. Baby with the bathwater, so to speak.