Nationality British | Name Simon Segars | |
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Born Simon Anthony Segars 17 October 1967 (age 57) Basildon, Essex ( 1967-10-17 ) Institutions Standard Telephones and CablesPlastic LogicARM Holdings plc Known for CEO of ARMLSE: ARMNASDAQ: ARMH Residence Silicon Valley, California, United States Fields Processor design, Embedded system People also search for Lee Smith, David Seal, Andy Merritt |
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Simon Anthony Segars (born 17 October 1967) is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ARM Holdings plc. ARM is a world leading semiconductor IP company headquartered in Cambridge that was acquired by SoftBank Group for £24.3 billion in 2016. Since 1991, over 100 billion ARM microprocessor chips have been shipped in products such as mobile phones, tablet computers and cars.
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- View from the top simon segars
- ARM Holdings New Breed of Microprocessor
- Education
- Career
- Awards and honours
- References
ARM Holdings' New Breed of Microprocessor
Education

Segars was educated at the University of Sussex where he was awarded a Bachelor of Engineering degree in electronic engineering. 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.
Career

After working for Standard Telephones and Cables, Segars joined ARM in 1991 as its 16th employee. He led development of the ARM7TM and ARM9TM Thumb® processor families.
In July 2013 he succeeded Warren East as CEO of ARM. 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.
Awards and honours
In 2016, Segars was named the UKtech50 most influential person in UK Information technology by Computer Weekly.