Great video. The questions made me cring a few times but it didn't stop this engener from shinning

Cameraman sounds like a student seeking for an explanation 2 days before the deadline assignment.

It's amazing when Steve explains these fundamentals, you realize the dedication involved in what we take for granted.

Thank you Steve for your generosity in this interview. Extremely interesting.

The world thanks you Steve furber and all the people involved in creating ARM

Steve Furber is an incredibly intelligent and engaging guy. Completely comfortable in front of the camera.

bloody fantastic thanks. a real british hero we are very lucky to have him.

Fascinating interview, you get the impression you are in the presence of a true genius and a real gentleman all in one. Thank you to the interviewer too for sharing this with us.

Best talk yet (even with the eccentric interview style).

"I haven't touched a cigarette since I was twelve" - this was hilarious :)

a very interesting interview. I've seen things that do not even show up on Discovery Channel. Thank Steve Furber for his patience.

That ARM design is an absolute image of beauty! It's like a work of art. That layout is incredible. Amazing!!!

I adore you Steve. I am on my way doing my PhD in IT. You inspired me. You are very humble.

What an intellect this man has.

what an utterly extraordinary man. elegantly put the "singularity" back in the dunce corner too:)

Steve is a real big man, a source of inspiration for all of us in the field of technology for the benefit of humankind. I envy the abilities and the luck of the students around him. 🙂

What a lovely interview. A wonderful insight into British computing history.

Just AMAZING! Thank you, Professor Furber. Such a BEAURIFUL CHIP!❤

Thank's for the Steve Furber interview much appreciated....:-)

Would be great to understand a 10th of this to the degree Steve can.... I have owned my child hood Beeb since the late 80s... its fantastic testament to these guys that it still works flawlessly.

Charbax gets great interviews but in every one there's a moment when the interviewee gives him a "...what you are asking me makes no sense?!" look. :-) Anyway enjoyed this one too. Thanks!

This man is brilliant. Great video!

Is that an Apple Watch Steve Furber is wearing. Nice that he has his processor on the wrist. Bet he never thought that would happen 30 years later.

ARM 1 arrives on 26th April 1985. One year later, to the day, Chernobyl happened. For such an intelligent man, Mr Furber is incredibly humble.

Very intelligent, interesting man..what were you doing in 1977? Certainly not building my first computer! Knowledge is power!

Thank you. Every minute is good.

Great interview. Loved the tour of the facility also. Very nice.

this is something awesome i have seen on youtube so far...really great feeling to meet creator of ARM

Steve furber very great gentleman , thanks steve. I am really proud for being subscribed to this channel

This is a wonderful piece of computing history that future generations will be happy to watch.

Steve is a bit of a hero of mine, as he probably is to many other 40-something IT nerds, so great to see him chatting about all this stuff. The questions are a bit MegaCRINGE and I wish the interviewer had been a bit more researched but Steve was very generous in his replies. I really enjoyed watching it (mostly!)

it really pays off to watch the entire piece

I'm going to say one of those tiresome youtube-y things. Why doesn't this video have 1,200,000 views instead of 12,000? After 15 minutes I was thinking this was about to be the best hour and a half of viewing time I have ever spent. After Steve Furber's generous gift of an hour and half of insights and lore, I was thinking this is most amazing block of time of its kind I have ever experienced in my life. If only the other early micro-computer wizards were equally as generous and equally as capable! Maybe it depends on the guy doing the interview? We just stroll over to the room where the Spinnakers are running, Furber opens it, and we walk in. I'd love to see inside where Intel does their simulations. It will never happen! BTW, I am an American, and I have only heard of an Acorn; never saw one in person. But I do go back far enough that when I was taking up electronics, a couple of the teachers had built their own microcomputers; one had an 8008 (probably from a development kit), the predecessor of the 8080.

Great interview. Impressive number of core in those racks. The walk from IT building tothe Kilburn building brought back a lot of memories of my time at MU.

another amazing interview from humble beginnings to worldwide embracement. With the human body compared energy -wise to a 100 watt light bulb, most of which used by the brain, so many gigaflops per watt as a goal is a very interesting figure considering that the 500M core computer uses ?50 KW, is 1% the (ability) of a brain, and so very much larger. Still orders of magnitude to go, but I appreciate his mentioned main interest in Natural intelligence, not ai.

Gr8 video... really want to see stuff like this top the charts

This video is only the second reference I have ever seen to _anyone_ using the Signetics 2650. The other was the April/May 1977 issues of the magazine Radio-Electronics.

Thankyou for sharing us steve Watching from philippines 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

bout time we got this guy an OBE better still a knighthood.

I love the video, loved the interview. I don’t know if anyone else noticed but the only thing Steve was upset about was the garden LOL. All the technology talk and the man can still appreciate a beautiful garden.

normally don't comment i just hit the likes ,but this time a very good interview.

The craftsmanship of his homebuilt computer is amazing. Every hole I've drilled is on the piss. :(

Great interview!!

such an inspiring person

32:35 He's still an Acorn man through and through...

Steve you are a true genius.

Really enjoyed this in depth interview thanks. Never new about the Newton and the influence it had on the initial set up and growth of ARM. Shame ARM have now been sold,,,,,

Brilliant.

On Herman Hauser: 'He is good at retrospective analysis'. Lol!

Upvoted because he's a hero!

Two words (so 32 bits): Pure GOLD

I wish such more interviews of few great scientist i could find on youtube

he looks knackered after an hour of interview..... anyway , good interview and very informative....

The contrast to others who own huge yachts or have offices full of beanbags and yoga facilities . If he has all these too it doesn't show. Impressed.

“i build a computer. then i wrote a texteditor. and i wrote my thesis on this texteditor.” 😊

I had to duck out at 1h05 after making it much further than I thought after I started feeling uncomfortable with the human interaction (or lack of it!). Steve is a intelligent, present, reasonable guy who listens carefully and responds correcting where neccessary. The interviewer could learn these skills too! At 1h05, (right after the interviewer barged into an office uninvited) when Steve touched a bit on human intelligence, it became very obvious that the interviewer wasn't listening as the next sentence/question had no confirmation or relevance on what Steve just said. I felt sorry for the three guys in the office entertaining this interview. I felt the subject matter was an excellent choice though.

What about the IBM RS/6000 family of RISC systems . Originally developed by IBM in England.

thanks a lot charbax! I would have like to know his opinion on strength/weaknesses of Apple Ax chips compared to exynos and Snapdragons

Wow. You are my idol!

It is assume, I have a final exam but I couldn't turn it off. Please, if you can show us another recent interview like this with technology leaders

Thank you for a great conversation. I hope the interviewer learned something along the way. I know I did and I have worked in the industry for decades. (hobbyist engineering & professional IT computer systems person)

Salute

I might just be sold on ARM architecture after watching this.

You really are the great

He reminds me of Peter Davison

Great great!

M1 ultra in apple having 114Billion transistor today

Steve what about the acorn emulators are they ok cos some of them don’t work well on the pc thanks

RISC wants to have instructions of equal size. And best a single word per instruction. So to have some space, you immediately come to 32bit. The other thing, from my POV: some instructions remind me to my /370 assembler years. Don’t know whether this is by coincidence and just the same ending of the same thinking process.

Interesting video.. I'm a CISC on RISC fan as well as pure RISC. A thought experiment concerning the brain lead me to visualise a network of processors where each processor is hard-linked to each other processor, with the connections also being the memory store... Microtubules, save, load, send... It scales well. Could be recursive with n processors joined to n processors forming a higher level processor, itself connected to n higher level processors, and so on... Computer Balls.. Processors could also communicate using EM waves and possibly even quantum entanglement at some point. In 2D flatwiorld only 4 processors can be joined to each other with a triangular layout having total shorter connections. so it''s groups of 4 processors forming next level processing units, recursively.

At first I thought this was a Computerphile video... Then realized it wasn't.

The Newton looks like an early iPhone or iPad. The fact that it never was successful just shows how tech is so far ahead of people's understanding. It was Apple so it was probably too expensive as well.

Reference model in 800 lines BBC basic! Great mind with tiny means

Ha Ha !? 40:50 The Apple II didn't need to pass an FCC but the BBC micro did-clever stuff indeed.

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I've watched two of these vids are cool but quite invasive to the people involved.

Sophie from Leeds

Lovely interview but STOP MOVING THE CAMERA

:) 1:05:00 He believes intelligence is something magic that can not be reproduced. Great interview.

Great work! You are such a talented interviewer. I really enjoyed watching. Thank you! :-)

Furber should have also tought this guy how to use a camera, ie on a tripod.

Just a reminder, both rocket scientists and brain surgeons need software engineers now =]9¬_D

Wonderful interview. What a disaster Brexit will be for UK and EU research

I couldn't afford the bbc and had to use the sinclair 48 k

There is one architectural feature that THAT HAS TO GO! It is little endian bit/byte arrangement for data, and also for address pointers! For businesses applications that uses redefines for overlays differing data types for COBOL and Nixon’s for C, little Endian for business applications constitutes major booby traps for coding defects. For companies like SAS Institute that supports applications across multiple architectures, different endian differences create major impediment for providing reliable and big free products. I believe that the major reason that Prime supermini computers found greater adoption among commercial business company than the VAX systems was because its architecture as big endian. Also , little endian greatly creases the time and energy on programmers using memory dumps in tracking down coding faults. In the pre and early LSI hardware, the design shortcuts for hardware implementation may have been tempting, but burden wreaked on programmers by little endian is no longer worth the price!

Talk is cheap! Think you can do a better job? Show us what you got! Thank you for another video and your time.

11:42 How old is this kid? 19:30 The what business? (I can't understand the word.) 42:45 Who _is_ this obnoxious kid?

He was right about Brexit being a complete disaster of course.

13:47 He became a bit defensive when the interviewer asked him about the difference in layout between the old chips and the new chip. He seemed to intimate that the newer chips are designed by a machine algorithm that places hot parts away from other hot parts. I wonder why he's reticent to talk about that. Maybe that machine learning edge is Arm's best edge. We should probably keep an eye on Arm's hiring profile. If they become too much an AI research outfit and their profit depends on it we should probably look deeper. At the moment I love the fact that a good majority of the world's chip are designed in Britain. I would lose that pride if it turned out that edge can be sold. If ARM have become an AI research company and they are now owned by the Japanese that is not a good thing for the UK. It becomes up to the japanese to control that responsibility. Be careful. Luv and Peace.

"Performant"? Bah.

Intel - StrongARM.

Gotta love this interviewer only asking about Apple and IBM being competitors. Not sure about his age, but he should learn computer history a bit before doing interviews like this.The BBC machine only sold reasonably in the UK. Everywhere else it was Commodore 64 which sold about 15 million units, the Atari 8 bit computers, which sold about 4 million, Spectrum, 5 million (mainly UK too) and there were some more....

It'd never compete with Apple. First of all, Apple II was already established on the market with software and peripherals (specifically floppy drive) eco system. Secondly, even if BBC made to US on time, it'd be quickly killed by cheap (and more superior) Commodore. And essentially Commodore killed Acorns not just in US but in home market as well. Acorn really competed with Apple only on educational market.

Little endian architecture has to go! For business applications written in COBOL or C, which’s uses data structures that involve redefinition or union in which different data types are overlaid, severe problems or programming design errors are likely to arise. For companies like SAS Institute that design and support major applications and system, little endian architectures create major obstacles. In the past ere of the supermini computer systems, big endian systems like Prime were far more successful with commercial users than the Digital Equipment VAX with its little endian architecture were less successful. Another architectural beef I have is with the base plus displacement architecture of the IBM 360 and its successors. You are most likely familiar with paging thrashing issue with virtual memory system configured with insufficient memory. I assert that such architectures have risk of an address reference thrashing issue arising with extreme large program logic instruction sizes. I do not have sufficient training and ability to derive a proof of this possibility. Should this become a problem, a meta intermediate language and procedure in which the interpretive object language that would support a more viable implementation, with support for indirect addressing, which was omitted in the IBM design. Another direction I would to see explored is hardware implementation for common trigonometric, hyperbolic and other functions that uses indexing table lookup for evaluation that would be new or two clock period fastest, and be perfect in its entire number range. For massive single valued mapping calculation functions, special space matrix memories covering the entire number range wold be used to deter unnecessary repetitive calculation. This would bypass the limitation of Moore’s Law, and reduced the need for quantum computers until true room temperature superconductivity can become discovered or invented!

lol - "israel" - try *Occupied Palestine* sonny 7:34