Simon Segars

Simon Segars
Born Simon Anthony Segars
(1967-10-17) 17 October 1967[1]
Basildon, Essex, England
Residence Silicon Valley, California, US[1]
Nationality British
Fields
Institutions
Alma mater
Academic advisors Steve Furber[4]
Known for
Website
twitter.com/simonsegars

Simon Anthony Segars (born 17 October 1967) is the chief executive officer (CEO) of ARM Holdings plc[1][5][6][7][8] a world leading semiconductor IP company headquartered in Cambridge, England.

Education

Segars was educated at the University of Sussex where he was awarded a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering.[3] He went 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.[1] He led development of the ARM7TM and ARM9TM Thumb® processor families.[1][9][10][3][11][12][13]

In July 2013 he succeeded Warren East as CEO of ARM.[1][5][2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mance, Henry (2013-07-07). "Simon Segars, ARM Holdings chief". Financial Times.(subscription required)
  2. 1 2 "Simon Segars". Businessweek. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
  3. 1 2 3 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.
  4. 1 2 3 Segars, Simon Anthony (1996). Low Power Microprocessor Design (MSc thesis). University of Manchester.
  5. 1 2 Cave, Andrew (2013-03-23). "Sunday Interview: ARM's Warren East and Simon Segars". Daily Telegraph.
  6. ARM CEO insights: Fireside Chat with Simon Segars at ARM TechCon '13 on YouTube
  7. ARM CEO Simon Segars at CES 2014 on YouTube
  8. ARM CEO Simon Segars Keynote at ARM Techcon 2013 on YouTube
  9. Simon Segars's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier. (subscription required)
  10. Simon Segars on Twitter
  11. 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). p. 230. doi:10.1109/ICCD.1998.727055. ISBN 0-8186-9099-2.
  12. Segars, Simon (1997). "ARM7TDMI power consumption". IEEE Micro. 17 (4): 12. doi:10.1109/40.612178.
  13. 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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