November Dinner - full house to hear "Computing in the post-PC era"
45 local business leaders, innovators and interim managers came together for their quarterly dinner at Jesus College.
This time, continuing the club’s overarching theme of creating business growth, the meal in the Upper Hall concluded with a presentation from Graham Budd, Chief Operating Officer of ARM Holdings plc, one of Cambridge’s global success stories.
Graham’s talk, “Computing in the post-PC era”, started with a brief history of the company and demonstrated the technology advances from the original ARM chips to the current day; with around 25 billion ARM processors having been shipped in electronic products along the way. He discussed how those processors have already become the bedrock of the current mobile computing revolution, with opportunities developing in the fastest super-computers as well as opportunities to save large amounts of power and cost in corporate server computing.
To conclude, Graham discussed a future where the Internet of Things would mean vast numbers of everyday items being connected via networked processors, and, despite remaining a highly competitive market, that ARM sees a huge opportunity for continued growth.
The increasing pervasiveness of ARM technology is seen in as wide a spectrum as:
'Calxeda today (1.11.11) unveiled its ARM-based “EnergyCore” Server-on-a-Chip, which consumes as little as 1.5 watts' & can deliver 2,500 servers in a single rack, and which is an element of HP's Redstone project.
and
Raspberry Pi An ARM GNU/Linux "PC" for £15/$25 - developed here in Cambridge (whose founders are attending).
The club hosts quarterly dinners, typically in one of the city's colleges where members come together with an influential speaker.
We seek to have informed discussion, dialogue and debate around managing, building and financing businesses in the region.
