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Last week at the ExCeL Conference Centre in London, ARM were in attendance at The Big Bang Fair, an event targeted at children and young adults interested in finding out more about ‘everything from robotics to nuclear reactors and from pharmacology to physics.’ ARM was a Corporate Sponsor at the event, appearing on the show floor alongside some of the UK’s leading science, technology, and engineering organizations.



ARM was represented by a talented team of recent graduates who put on a fantastic show for the estimated 70,000 attendees of the event which took place over four days. The first two days were reserved for schools to bring classes, while Saturday and Sunday were open for parents and adults to bring children along. In total there were over 120 interactive exhibits, demonstrations and practical activities for the children to get involved in! One of the main aims of the show was for the children to learn the right qualifications needed for different types of science and engineering roles, so having graduates that have recently joined ARM was useful and enabled them to pass on words of wisdom to aspiring new generation of engineers. Profiles of the graduates and more information about ARM attendance at the show can be found at ...

Simon Segars, EVP and General Manager Processor and Physical IP of ARM, once again opened the event for day two of the biggest ARM event of the year, after launching the ARM CortexTM-A53 and Cortex-A57 processors in his opening keynote. This time he was compared as he firstly introduced us to Dr. Jonathan Koomey, Consulting Professor, Stanford University who gave a captivating presentation on the computing revolution that is happening today and how this is affected by computing efficiency. A great example was given of a product that really show the Internet of Things (IoT) at work today with the Big Belly solar powered trash (UK: rubbish) compactor which is environmentally friendly in so many ways. Firstly it compacts the stuff we throw away by a factor of five and then when it’s totally full it sends a message to the garbage collector (UK: bin men) so they can schedule the most efficient way of popping round and emptying it – the costs of collecting are therefore greatly reduced and the wasted collection of half empty bins is stopped, so less greenhous...