How ARM Became The World’s Default Chip Architecture (with ARM CEO Rene Haas)

How ARM Became The World’s Default Chip Architecture (with ARM CEO Rene Haas)

From ACQ2 by Acquired by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

December 2, 2024 · 1h 14m

About this episode

ARM CEO Rene Haas discusses the company's rise to dominance in chip architecture and its impact on various technologies.

ARM is an incredibly unlikely story. They were founded in Cambridge, England in 1990 to design a new chip architecture just for low-power devices (like the Apple Newton!), leaving the “serious computing” on desktop and servers to Intel’s x86. Now, nearly three decades later, ARM is the dominant architecture in all of computing today. ARM is in your phone, your car, data centers, the most advanced AI chips… there are hundreds (or thousands!) of ARM chips you encounter in your everyday life. In this episode, ARM Holdings CEO Rene Haas joins us to tell the story of how ARM become so dominant, weaving through the through the iPod, smartphone, and AI eras. Plus, their wild corporate story of going public, getting bought by SoftBank, going public again , and nearly being acquired by NVIDIA! Sponsors: Sierra: https://bit.ly/acquiredsierra

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Hosts: Ben Gilbert, David Rosenthal

Guest: Rene Haas

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Organizations: ARM Holdings, SoftBank, NVIDIA

Products: Apple Newton, iPod, smartphone, AI chips

Places: Cambridge, England

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