RISC OS, the operating system that powered Acorn Computer's Archimedes computers in the 1980s and 1990s, has been fully released to open source. The move was welcomed by Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton: ...

Acorn is continuing its reinvention by changing its name to Element 14 in the run-up to the long awaited launch of Risc OS 4 this month. The name change has been in the pipeline since before Christmas ...

You've heard of ARM, right? The little chip design company that started out as twelve engineers in a barn in Cambridge, UK, but is now responsible for 25 billion of the microprocessors on this planet?

Get ready to be swept off your feet by this Acorn Risc Machine promotional video from the Mid-1980’s (also embedded after the jump). We’re sure most have put it together by now, but for those slower ...

Arm Holdings’ [NASDAQ:ARM] core business is to license so-called reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture based CPU designs to chip designers, such as Apple or Qualcomm. However, several ...

It was lunchtime at end of the 1980s. Outside the science classroom there was the usual cacophony of dinner money embezzlement, girls perfecting Madonna’s moves and lads giving each other Chinese ...

ARM Holdings has grown from a small Acorn in Cambridge - maker of some of the earliest home computers - into one of the world's most important designers of semiconductors, providing the brains for ...

A group of Acorn Computers alumni, supported by the company founders, Christopher Curry and Hermann Hauser, are planning a reunion party to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the company’s formation ...

Acorn designed an early home computer for the BBC in the 1981. The graphical display was assisted by this semi-custom integrated circuit designed by a research team in the Computer Laboratory at the ...