Born in Leeds in 1957, Sophie Wilson started young, building microprocessors by the age of fifteen. A true tech maverick, she spent her first summer break inventing an automated cow-feeder - because why chill on the beach when you can revolutionise farming? By 1979, Wilson had designed the Acorn System 1, a beloved early 8-bit microcomputer for hobbyists.

But her crowning achievement came in 1983 with the design of the ARM processor. Today, 95% of today's smartphones are built around an ARM processor, and the number of ARM processor cores now shipped exceeds 30 billion - that’s more than four ARM microprocessors for every person on earth. In 2019, Sophie Wilson’s extraordinary contributions to computing were recognised when she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

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