What does "ARM" stand for?

[yyc_engineer]

I can't be the only person on here who doesn't know. Tried Googling but got no help. What does "ARM" stand for - is it an acronym for something? It's been bugging me since the WWDC. Everyone talks about "Apple Silicon" and the transition to "ARM" but my OCD is going into overdrive with the not knowing.

- Sincerely Lost

 

[r.j.s]

Arm, previously Advanced RISC Machine, originally Acorn RISC Machine.

 

[yyc_engineer]

Thanks! 🤓

 

[chabig]

ARM architecture family - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[endlessike]

...and a leg”

Inevitable that Apple would switch.

 

[cupcakes2000]

I can't be the only person on here who doesn't know. Tried Googling but got no help. What does "ARM" stand for - is it an acronym for something? It's been bugging me since the WWDC. Everyone talks about "Apple Silicon" and the transition to "ARM" but my OCD is going into overdrive with the not knowing.

- Sincerely Lost

You must have a different google to me 🤣

ð what does arm stand for - Google Search

www.google.com

 

[throAU]

As above, Acorn Risc Machine.

First saw real use in the Acorn Archimedes (basically the machine the CPU was made for), which when it was released blew everything else away in terms of performance.

I remember lusting after one way back when I had my Amiga.

They were WAY ahead of PCs of the day in terms of raw performance.

Looks like we're about to come full circle

Acorn Archimedes - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Pressure]

Arm is a spin-off of the collaboration between Acorn and Apple in 1990 when they co-developed the processor for the Newton.

 

[JBGoode]

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[TiggrToo]

Growing up, Acorn computers were never the “cool” computers (such as the Sinclair Spectrum, the Commodore Vic-20 or 64, or Ataris) but each was in it’s way a bit of a trailblazer.

The Acorn Atom not only came in both prebuilt and kit form, it spotted a basic interpreter that you could embed 6502 machine code directly inside.

The BBC Micro was originally the Acorn Proton and was the successor to the Atom. It’s huge popularity in schools kept Acorn in the black for quite a while. The Electron was designed to be the home version of the BBC Micro and did OK for itself but was always an alsoran to its bigger brother.

Then came the Archimedes - the first ARM architecture and RISC cpu.

I was never the cool kid. I had the Atom. I did learn machine code at age 13 as a result though.