Simon Segars

Simon Segars
FRS
Segars in 2021
Born
Simon Anthony Segars

(1967-10-17) 17 October 1967[1]
Basildon, Essex, England
Alma mater
Known forCEO of ARM Holdings (2013–2022)
Scientific career
Fields
Workplaces
ThesisLow power microprocessor design (1996)
Academic advisors
Steve Furber[3]

Simon Anthony Segars FRS[5] (born 17 October 1967) is a British business executive who was chief executive officer (CEO) of ARM Holdings plc from 2013 to 2022.[1][6][7][8][9] 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.[10][11]

Education

Segars attended Woodlands School in Basildon,[12] and was educated at the University of Sussex where he earned a bachelor of engineering degree in electronic engineering.[2] 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.[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][13][2][14][15][16]

In July 2013 he succeeded Warren East as CEO of ARM.[1][6][4] 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.[4] He is Chair of Silicon Quantum Computing.[17]

In February 2022, Rene Haas succeeded Segars as CEO, with Segars leaving Arm.[18]

Awards and honours

In 2016, Segars was named the UKtech50 most influential person in UK Information technology by Computer Weekly.[19] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2024.[5]

Personal life

Segars is married, with three children.[12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Mance, Henry (7 July 2013). "Simon Segars, ARM Holdings chief". Financial Times. London.(subscription required)
  2. 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. Bibcode:2003IJSSC..38.1791S. doi:10.1109/JSSC.2003.818123.
  3. 1 2 3 Segars, Simon Anthony (1996). Low Power Microprocessor Design (MSc thesis). University of Manchester. OCLC 643624237. Copac 36604476.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Anon (2017). "Simon Segars". Bloomberg L.P. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017.
  5. 1 2 Anon (2024). "Mr Simon Segars FRS". royalsociety.org. Royal Society.
  6. 1 2 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. 1 2 Duke, Simon (13 October 2013). "Tech boss fights to keep Cambridge's chips hot". The Sunday Times.
  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. ↑ "Fellow Detail Page | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
  18. ↑ 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.
  19. ↑ Cite error: The named reference uktech was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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