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.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 7/23/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.