About Acorn Computers Ltd.

About company

This former European IT company is considered by many as being “the most influential business in the innovation cluster’s history” to date. It was founded in Cambridge, UK, in 1979, bringing the world the Maverick and Smart computers, before being disbanded in 1998. The aptly named ACORN bore fertility from its seed: Indeed… amongst its greatest legacies they can find ARM ltd ($25bn market cap today), the omnipresent Broadcom Firepath processor, the Raspberry Pi… as well as, first and foremost, a truly iconic brand that introduced the computer to the general public.