When was ARM Holdings founded?
The company was founded in November 1990 as Advanced RISC Machines Ltd and structured as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple, and VLSI Technology. Acorn provided 12 employees, VLSI provided tools, Apple provided a US$3 million investment (equivalent to $7 million in 2022).
[you are quoting a 1999 device]: Of course after the Newton flopped, ARM would sell to anybody who would be interested ... (INTEL including).
You are still wrong, ARM was never created to power the Newton (as you claimed), it was adapted to the Newton, ARM was in the BBC Micro computer first under their Acorn company founded in 1978. I doubt when they came up with the ARM idea and design they ever thought of Apple. They spent 11 years developing ARM before Apple helped them create the foundation.
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