Arm Shows Backside Power Delivery as Path to Further Moore’s Law

Re:Arm Shows Backside Power Delivery as Path to Further Moor... by hvindin on Friday December 20, 2019 @08:12PM (#21848869)

Genuine question, do normal people pronounce ARM as "Arm" (like the limb) as in /ɑːrm/ or /ɑːm/, or do they pronounce it like A.R.M as in each letter individually.

I've always said ARM (as in each individual letter) when talking about ARM processors and it's never even occured to me to pronounce it like Arm.

That being said... I do pronounce RISCV as /rɪsk-viː/ (or, as I believe was the intention rɪsk-faiv depending who I am talking to) and that seemed entirely normal as opposed to pronouncing each letter in the Acronym...

So maybe I'm just weird here...

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Re:Arm Shows Backside Power Delivery as Path to Further Moor... by pm215 on Friday December 20, 2019 @08:21PM (#21848914)

The company and CPU name has always been pronounced 'arm' like the body part.

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Re:Arm Shows Backside Power Delivery as Path to Further Moor... by ksec on Saturday December 21, 2019 @07:20PM (#21854220)

My general rule is to pronounced any three letter Capitalised term as individual characters, so A/R/M and S/Q/L.

Since RISC-V is longer I pronounced it the same as you; /rɪsk-viː/, the same as to NASA and NATO.

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Re:Arm Shows Backside Power Delivery as Path to Further Moor... by danellis on Saturday December 21, 2019 @09:21PM (#21854728)

Yeah, it's pronounced like the limb, and always has been, at least in English-speaking countries. Hence the StrongARM pun.

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Re:Arm Shows Backside Power Delivery as Path to Further Moor... by slau on Saturday December 21, 2019 @03:30AM (#21850335)

In English, I usually just say it as the body part. In French, however, I would pronounce every letter separately.

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