Sophie Wilson - Inventor of the ARM Processor

We’re joined by Sophie Wilson, who jointly designed the ARM processor along with Steve Furber. There are currently over 200 billion ARM-powered chips in existence, with around 7 billion shipping every quarter, equating to 900 chips per second and 70 million chips a day. Sophie’s pioneering work is in nearly every smartphone, tablet & smartwatch on the planet, and that work continues today as a Fellow and Distinguished Engineer at Broadcom. Maximum PC called her on of “The 15 Most Important Women in Tech History”, and she has been honored as Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a Fellow of the Royal Society, an honorary fellow at Selwyn College, and a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, among many other awards and honors. Sophie joins us to discuss the past, present, and future of the ARM processor, with a focus on the pressures of the early design process that created the fundamental principles for this design that have given it the flexibility and efficiency to become ubiquitous in 21st-century computing.