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]
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| Born | Simon Anthony Segars 17 October 1967[2] Basildon, Essex, England |
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| Known for | CEO of ARM Holdings (2013–2022) |
| Awards | UKtech50 (2016)[1] |
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| Thesis | Low power microprocessor design (1996) |
| Academic advisors | Steve Furber[4] |
Education
editSegars 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
editAfter 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
editIn 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
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c Segars, Simon; Sheikholeslami, Ali; Fischer, Stephen (2003). "Guest editorial: Special issue of the digital, memory, and signal processing sessions of the 2003 ISSCC". IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. 38 (11): 1791. Bibcode:2003IJSSC..38.1791S. doi:10.1109/JSSC.2003.818123.
- ^ 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.