British businessman (born 1967)
Simon Anthony Segars FRS [ 6] (born 17 October 1967) is a British business executive executive who was chief executive officer (CEO) of ARM Holdings plc from 2013 to 2022.[ 2] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] ARM is the UK's largest semiconductor IP company headquartered in Cambridge , England, and was acquired by SoftBank Group for £24.3 billion in 2016.[ 11] [ 12]
Education
Segars was educated at the University of Sussex where he earned a bachelor of engineering degree in electronic engineering .[ 5] He went on to study for a master's degree from the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in 1996 on low power microprocessor design in the ARM6 chip, supervised by Steve Furber .[ 4]
Career
After working for Standard Telephones and Cables , Segars joined ARM in 1991 as its 16th employee.[ 2] He led development of the ARM7TM and ARM9TM Thumb® processor families.[ 2] [ 13] [ 5] [ 14] [ 15] [ 16]
In July 2013 he succeeded Warren East as CEO of ARM.[ 2] [ 7] [ 3] He is a member of the board of directors at Electronic Design Automation Ltd, the EDA Consortium , the Global Semiconductor Alliance and Dolby Laboratories Inc.[ 3]
In February 2022, Rene Haas succeeded Segars as CEO, with Segars leaving Arm.[ 17]
Awards and honours
In 2016, Segars was named the UKtech50 most influential person in UK Information technology by Computer Weekly .[ 1] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2024.[ 6]
References
^ a b Evenstad, Lis (2016). "UKtech50 interview: ARM Holdings CEO Simon Segars" . Computer Weekly . Archived from the original on 8 December 2016.
^ a b c d e f Mance, Henry (7 July 2013). "Simon Segars, ARM Holdings chief" . Financial Times . London. (subscription required)
^ a b c d Anon (2017). "Simon Segars" . Bloomberg L.P. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017.
^ a b c Segars, Simon Anthony (1996). Low Power Microprocessor Design (MSc thesis). University of Manchester. OCLC 643624237 . Copac 36604476 .
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^ a b Anon (2024). "Mr Simon Segars FRS" . royalsociety.org . Royal Society .
^ a b Cave, Andrew (23 March 2013). "Sunday Interview: ARM's Warren East and Simon Segars" . The Daily Telegraph .
^ ARM CEO insights: Fireside Chat with Simon Segars at ARM TechCon '13 on YouTube
^ ARM CEO Simon Segars at CES 2014 on YouTube , Consumer Electronics Show , Las Vegas
^ ARM CEO Simon Segars Keynote at ARM Techcon 2013 on YouTube
^ Moore, James (2016). "ARM chief Simon Segars hails £24.3bn SoftBank deal as 'good for Britain' " . The Independent . London. Archived from the original on 21 April 2017.
^ Bertoni, Steven. "PODCAST: How Arm Holdings Got Into Every Tech Gadget You Own" . Forbes . Retrieved 11 December 2017 .
^ Simon Segars's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
^ Segars, Simon (1998). "The ARM9 family-high performance microprocessors for embedded applications". Proceedings International Conference on Computer Design. VLSI in Computers and Processors (Cat. No.98CB36273) . pp. 230–235. doi :10.1109/ICCD.1998.727055 . ISBN 0-8186-9099-2 .
^ Segars, Simon (1997). "ARM7TDMI power consumption". IEEE Micro . 17 (4): 12–19. doi :10.1109/40.612178 .
^ Goudge, Liam; Segars, Simon (1996). "Thumb: Reducing the cost of 32-bit RISC performance in portable and consumer applications". COMPCON '96. Technologies for the Information Superhighway Digest of Papers . p. 176. doi :10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501765 . ISBN 0-8186-7414-8 .
^ Moorhead, Patrick (8 February 2022). "Surprise! NVIDIA Deal Off, Arm Is Very Profitable, Has A New CEO, And Rene Haas Is Looking Forward To Its IPO" . Forbes . Retrieved 8 February 2022 .
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