Simon Segars Explained

Birth Name:Simon Anthony Segars
Birth Date:1967 10, df=yes
Birth Place:Basildon, Essex, England
Thesis Year:1996
Thesis Url:http://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/MU_VU1:BLENDED:44MAN_ALMA_DS21164154130001631
Thesis Title:Low power microprocessor design
Academic Advisors:Steve Furber
Known For:CEO of ARM Holdings (2013–2022)
Awards:UKtech50 (2016)[1]

Simon Anthony Segars [2] (born 17 October 1967) is a British business executive executive who was chief executive officer (CEO) of ARM Holdings plc from 2013 to 2022.[3] [4] [5] 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.[6] [7]

Education

Segars was educated at the University of Sussex where he earned a bachelor of engineering degree in electronic engineering. 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.[8]

Career

After working for Standard Telephones and Cables, Segars joined ARM in 1991 as its 16th employee.[3] He led development of the ARM7TM and ARM9TM Thumb® processor families.[3] [9] [10] [11] [12]

In July 2013 he succeeded Warren East as CEO of ARM.[3] [4] [13] 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.[13]

In February 2022, Rene Haas succeeded Segars as CEO, with Segars leaving Arm.[14]

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.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: UKtech50 interview: ARM Holdings CEO Simon Segars. Computer Weekly. https://web.archive.org/web/20161208143847/http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450404184/UKtech50-interview-ARM-Holdings-CEO-Simon-Segars. 8 December 2016. Lis. Evenstad. 2016. dead. dmy-all.
  2. Web site: Mr Simon Segars FRS. royalsociety.org. Royal Society. 2024. Anon.
  3. Web site: Simon Segars, ARM Holdings chief . Mance . Henry . 7 July 2013 . Financial Times. London.
  4. Web site: Sunday Interview: ARM's Warren East and Simon Segars. Cave . Andrew . 23 March 2013 . The Daily Telegraph.
  5. , Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas
  6. Web site: ARM chief Simon Segars hails £24.3bn SoftBank deal as 'good for Britain'. James. Moore. 2016. The Independent. https://web.archive.org/web/20170421073634/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/arm-chief-simon-segars-hails-243bn-softbank-deal-as-good-for-britain-a7142421.html. London. 21 April 2017. dead. dmy-all.
  7. News: PODCAST: How Arm Holdings Got Into Every Tech Gadget You Own. Bertoni. Steven. Forbes. 2017-12-11. en.
  8. MSc . Simon Anthony. Segars . Low Power Microprocessor Design . University of Manchester . 1996 . Simon Segars. 643624237. .
  9. 10.1109/JSSC.2003.818123. 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. 2003. Segars . Simon. Simon Segars. Sheikholeslami . Ali. Fischer . Stephen. 2003IJSSC..38.1791S.
  10. Book: 10.1109/ICCD.1998.727055. The ARM9 family-high performance microprocessors for embedded applications. Proceedings International Conference on Computer Design. VLSI in Computers and Processors (Cat. No.98CB36273). 230–235. 1998. Segars . Simon. Simon Segars. 0-8186-9099-2.
  11. 10.1109/40.612178. ARM7TDMI power consumption. IEEE Micro. 17. 4. 12–19. 1997. Segars . Simon. Simon Segars.
  12. Book: 10.1109/CMPCON.1996.501765. Thumb: Reducing the cost of 32-bit RISC performance in portable and consumer applications. COMPCON '96. Technologies for the Information Superhighway Digest of Papers. 176. 1996. Goudge . Liam. Segars . Simon. Simon Segars. 0-8186-7414-8.
  13. Web site: Simon Segars. Bloomberg L.P.. https://web.archive.org/web/20170202154939/https://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/people/7061810-simon-anthony-segars. 2 February 2017. Anon. 2017. dead. dmy-all.
  14. News: Moorhead . Patrick . Surprise! NVIDIA Deal Off, Arm Is Very Profitable, Has A New CEO, And Rene Haas Is Looking Forward To Its IPO . 8 February 2022 . Forbes . 8 February 2022.

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