I've read a lot of news articles this week about Apple adopting ARM processors for future Macs, but not one of them seemed to mention that ARM was created as a joint venture between Apple, Acorn and VLSI in 1990.
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Ah, I remember the Newton, my uncle had one! Why do I have some recollection there was some chip design discussion about synchronous vs asynchronous processor architecture?
is coming back home 
I wonder if any of the original designers are still at Apple?I don't really know what that would mean... but there was plenty of "discussion" about CISC vs RISC architectures...
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PowerPC was part of that debate, but some smarter folks started to understand it’s power efficiency that’s important. That kind of validated the entire ARM existence and Intel’s plan B with the Core micro architecture gave them air to breathe (while PowerPC imploded on itself).
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(Not saying ARM is asynchronous, just saying it brought back some memories).
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