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The first Arm processor chip is powered on and works on its first try
Engineers at Acorn Computers in Cambridge received the first fabricated ARM (Acorn RISC Machine) silicon from manufacturer VLSI Technology and tested it that same afternoon, with the design working correctly on first power-up. This chip was the ancestor of the Arm architecture that now underpins the vast majority of the world's mobile and embedded processors.
Source: The Register
