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Steve Furber

English computer scientist (born 1953)

Life: 1953 – present
Born: March 21, 1953
Nationality: United Kingdom

Stephen Byram Furber is an English computer scientist, mathematician and hardware engineer, and Emeritus ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK. After completing his education at the University of Cambridge, he spent the 1980s at Acorn Computers, where he was a principal designer of the BBC Micro and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor. As of 2023, over 250 billion ARM chips have been manufactured, poweri