alt Hacker NewsYes 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
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
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.