Simon Segars

Simon Anthony Segars (born 17 October 1967) is the chief executive officer (CEO) of ARM Holdings plc.[1][6][7][8][9] ARM is the UK-largest semiconductor IP company headquartered in Cambridge, England, that was acquired by SoftBank Group for £24.3 billion ($32 billion) in 2016.[10][11]

Simon Segars
Simon Segars speaking at the Web Summit in 2017
Born
Simon Anthony Segars

(1967-10-17) 17 October 1967[1]
Basildon, Essex, England
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
Known for
AwardsUKtech50 (2016)[4]
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisLow power microprocessor design (1996)
Academic advisorsSteve Furber[3]

Education

Segars was educated at the University of Sussex where he was awarded a Bachelor of Engineering degree in electronic engineering.[2] He went on to study for a Master of Science 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.[3]

Career

After working for Standard Telephones and Cables, Segars joined ARM in 1991 as its 16th employee.[1] He led development of the ARM7TM and ARM9TM Thumb® processor families.[1][12][2][13][14][15]

In July 2013 he succeeded Warren East as CEO of ARM.[1][6][5] 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.[5]

Awards and honours

In 2016, Segars was named the UKtech50 most influential person in UK Information technology by Computer Weekly.[4]

References
  1. Mance, Henry (7 July 2013). "Simon Segars, ARM Holdings chief". Financial Times. London.(subscription required)
  2. 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. doi:10.1109/JSSC.2003.818123.
  3. Segars, Simon Anthony (1996). Low Power Microprocessor Design (MSc thesis). University of Manchester. OCLC 643624237. Copac 36604476.
  4. Evenstad, Lis (2016). "UKtech50 interview: ARM Holdings CEO Simon Segars". Computer Weekly. Archived from the original on 8 December 2016.
  5. Anon (2017). "Simon Segars". Bloomberg L.P. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017.
  6. Cave, Andrew (23 March 2013). "Sunday Interview: ARM's Warren East and Simon Segars". The Daily Telegraph.
  7. ARM CEO insights: Fireside Chat with Simon Segars at ARM TechCon '13 on YouTube
  8. ARM CEO Simon Segars at CES 2014 on YouTube, Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas
  9. ARM CEO Simon Segars Keynote at ARM Techcon 2013 on YouTube
  10. 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.
  11. Bertoni, Steven. "PODCAST: How Arm Holdings Got Into Every Tech Gadget You Own". Forbes. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  12. Simon Segars's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  13. 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.
  14. Segars, Simon (1997). "ARM7TDMI power consumption". IEEE Micro. 17 (4): 12–19. doi:10.1109/40.612178.
  15. 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.
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