Simon Segars

Simon Segars
FRS
Segars in 2021
Born
Simon Anthony Segars

(1967-10-17) 17 October 1967 (age 57)[2]
Basildon, Essex, England
Alma mater
Known forCEO of ARM Holdings (2013–2022)
AwardsUKtech50 (2016)[1]
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisLow power microprocessor design (1996)
Academic advisorsSteve Furber[4]

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

  1. ^ a b Evenstad, Lis (2016). "UKtech50 interview: ARM Holdings CEO Simon Segars". Computer Weekly. Archived from the original on 8 December 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Mance, Henry (7 July 2013). "Simon Segars, ARM Holdings chief". Financial Times. London.(subscription required)
  3. ^ a b c d Anon (2017). "Simon Segars". Bloomberg L.P. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017.
  4. ^ a b c Segars, Simon Anthony (1996). Low Power Microprocessor Design (MSc thesis). University of Manchester. OCLC 643624237. Copac 36604476.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ a b Anon (2024). "Mr Simon Segars FRS". royalsociety.org. Royal Society.
  7. ^ a b Cave, Andrew (23 March 2013). "Sunday Interview: ARM's Warren East and Simon Segars". The Daily Telegraph.
  8. ^ ARM CEO insights: Fireside Chat with Simon Segars at ARM TechCon '13 on YouTube
  9. ^ ARM CEO Simon Segars at CES 2014 on YouTube, Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas
  10. ^ ARM CEO Simon Segars Keynote at ARM Techcon 2013 on YouTube
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ Bertoni, Steven. "PODCAST: How Arm Holdings Got Into Every Tech Gadget You Own". Forbes. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  13. ^ Simon Segars's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ Segars, Simon (1997). "ARM7TDMI power consumption". IEEE Micro. 17 (4): 12–19. doi:10.1109/40.612178.
  16. ^ 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.
  17. ^ 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.