Nigel Stephens
Arm Ltd
Lead ISA Architect & Fellow
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Nigel joined Arm in 2008 to work on the design of Armv8-A, with a particular focus on the AArch64 Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). He later became lead Armv8-A instruction set architect and was appointed an ARM Fellow in 2015.
Prior to joining Arm, Nigel has worked as a systems programmer, kernel developer, compiler developer and computer architect. He has specialized in RISC processors ever since working on the specification and development of the first ever MIPS-based UNIX graphics workstation at Whitechapel Computer Works in East London way back in1986.