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ARM processors power billions of mobile phones due to low power consumption
Acorn RISC Machine architecture reduced instruction complexity to maximize energy efficiency
Designed in Cambridge by Acorn Computers in 1985, the ARM architecture employed Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) principles. By executing simpler machine instructions in fewer clock cycles, ARM chips consumed far less electrical power than complex desktop processors. Today ARM processor designs are licensed and embedded in virtually all smartphones.
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