同樣是首席執(zhí)行官尋找接棒人選的問題，就像很多其它事情， ARM 與競爭對手英特爾(Intel)的處理方法上就是不一樣。 英特爾在 2012年11月宣布首席執(zhí)行官Paul Otellini 將于隔年5月退休，將尋找接棒人選；這讓該公司的態(tài)度看起來有點(diǎn)鬼鬼祟祟，業(yè)界也猜測英特爾可能會首度向公司外部尋覓首席執(zhí)行官。而 ARM 則在相同的議題上態(tài)度謹(jǐn)慎得多，在宣布現(xiàn)任首席執(zhí)行官Warren East將于今年7月1號離職同時，也表示已經(jīng)透過盡職調(diào)查選定內(nèi)部接班人Simon Segars。 Segars在ARM工作22年，擔(dān)任過工程師、參與過該公司早期幾款處理器和新的設(shè)計(jì)，也擔(dān)任過工程與業(yè)務(wù)部門的主管職位，有ARM英國總部與海外據(jù)點(diǎn)的經(jīng)驗(yàn)。Segars在ARM的資歷甚至比East長，而年紀(jì)則是小了5~6歲...一切條件都很完美不是嗎？ 而East在宣布退休消息的電話會議上透露，他在2013年6月30日上完最后一天班之后，不會繼續(xù)擔(dān)任ARM包括董事會在內(nèi)的任何職務(wù)，將完全與老東家 “劃清界線”；他表示：“我正在期待一些新挑戰(zhàn)，可能來一場小旅行之類的?！? 當(dāng)被問到他所提到的挑戰(zhàn)會是哪些，以及他是否會考慮離開英國時，East的回答是：“我對科技十分熱衷，我應(yīng)該會以某種方式與科技世界保持連結(jié)；我希望能做一些與ARM互補(bǔ)的工作，也許是在英國?！苯又步忉屃藶楹嗡F(xiàn)在就做出離開ARM的決定。 East 表示，ARM對于公司的長期發(fā)展規(guī)劃已經(jīng)到2020年之后，而對于首席執(zhí)行官來說，很重要的是得看著那些計(jì)劃有所成。“到那個時候，我已經(jīng)擔(dān)任這個職位超過 20年，時間實(shí)在太長?！彼陔娫挄h上表示：“如果你想做一些改變，就得趁著公司狀況良好的時候做；而現(xiàn)在正是ARM狀況很好的時候。” 毋庸質(zhì)疑，Segars在延續(xù)前兩位首席執(zhí)行官(Robin Saxby與Warren East)建立一個共同合作的生態(tài)系統(tǒng)策略上，顯然是一個安全且合格的接班人選。在同一場電話會議中，Segars表示該公司的策略將不會有什么大幅度的 改變；他的接棒意味著并不會有新文化的注入，以協(xié)助ARM因應(yīng)勢必與上一世代大不相同的新世代使用者喜好。 本文授權(quán)編譯自EE Times，版權(quán)所有，謝絕轉(zhuǎn)載 本文下一頁：Segars時代，如何讓ARM站上運(yùn)算領(lǐng)域的終極舞臺？

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{pagination} 在ARM第一任首席執(zhí)行官Robin Saxby當(dāng)家的1990年代，標(biāo)志著ARM在手機(jī)領(lǐng)域的崛起；而East在位的2000年代，他率領(lǐng)ARM核心更進(jìn)一步深入更多嵌入式應(yīng)用，伴隨而來的是該公司在智能手機(jī)與平板裝置領(lǐng)域的耀眼成就。 而在Segars的時代，他的挑戰(zhàn)會是如何讓ARM站上運(yùn)算領(lǐng)域的終極舞臺──服務(wù)器與超級計(jì)算機(jī)，以及所謂的物聯(lián)網(wǎng)(IoT)中，那些微小、各自獨(dú)立的“葉節(jié)點(diǎn)(leaf-node)”系統(tǒng)。 未來Segars接任ARM首席執(zhí)行官，預(yù)期應(yīng)該不會有公司文化、展望或是策略方面的改變，而這也許就是重點(diǎn)所在。ARM的業(yè)務(wù)模式運(yùn)作順利，也不需要向外尋找首席執(zhí)行官，這或許也是該公司與英特爾最顯著的不同之處。 Segars 將面臨的另一個挑戰(zhàn)，會是比較跟個人特質(zhì)有關(guān)的。East以一種穩(wěn)定可靠的形象，從熱情奔放的、業(yè)務(wù)員風(fēng)格的第一任首席執(zhí)行官Saxby手中接下ARM，并將 公司推向ARM核心芯片(2012)年出貨量87億顆的規(guī)模，如何接下East手上的棒子，對Segars來說并非簡單任務(wù)。 本文授權(quán)編譯自EE Times，版權(quán)所有，謝絕轉(zhuǎn)載 編譯：Judith Cheng 參考英文原文：London Calling: ARM's Segars is safe CEO choice，by Peter Clarke

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{pagination} London Calling: ARM's Segars is safe CEO choice Peter Clarke On the issue of CEO succession – as in many things – ARM has acted in stark contrast to rival semiconductor company Intel. On the issue of CEO succession – as in many things – ARM has acted in contrast to rival semiconductor company Intel. Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.) announced back in November 2012 that CEO Paul Otellini would be retiring in May 2103, aged 62, and then set off on a headhunting exercise, which seemed to show signs that the company is spooked. It would also seem likely that Intel is going to go outside the company for the first time in its existence. In contrast processor IP licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) has played its cards close to its chest and has been doing its own CEO due diligence in private and concluded that an internal candidate, Simon Segars – effectively number two to CEO Warren East for quite a while – is the best person to replace East when he steps down on July 1. It's hard to argue with the logic. Segars is coming up to 22 years at ARM and worked as an IC engineer on some the company's early processor core designs as well holding many senior executive positions in engineering and sales and he has worked for ARM in the U.K. and overseas. He has been at ARM longer than East and is five or six years younger – what's not to like? East is not going to retain a seat on the board or have any position at ARM after June 30, 2013. It will be a "clean break" he told analysts on a conference call on March 19 immediately after his retirement from ARM was announced. "I am now looking forward to some new challenges and maybe travelling a little less," he said. When asked about what those challenges are and whether he would contemplate leaving the U.K., East said: "I am passionate about technology. I am almost bound to stay connected to the tech world in some way. I hope to do things that will be complementary to ARM, maybe in the U.K." ARM planning for the 2020s East also explained why the decision for him to leave ARM has been made now. ARM takes a long-term business view with the company planning for 2020 and beyond, he said, and it is important that the CEO is around to see those plans through to fruition. "I would have been in the job 20 years or more by then and that would be too long," East told the conference call. "If you're going to make a change, let's do it when the business is healthy. And ARM is very healthy right now," he said. There's no doubt Segars is the obvious and safe choice qualified to continue the collaborative, ecosystem-building approach of ARM's first two CEOs, Sir Robin Saxby and Warren East. On the same conference call Segars said there would be no dramatic changes of strategy at the company. But Segars' appointment does mean that there is no influx of different culture to help ARM address the next decade, which is bound to be different to the last one. Sir Robin's time – the 1990s – was marked by the emergence of ARM in mobile phones. In the 2000s Warren East has presided over the deeper penetration of ARM cores into more embedded applications but accompanied by meteoric success in smartphones and tablet computers. The challenges for Segars' period of tenure will be how well ARM can penetrate into computing at the performance end of the market – servers and supercomputers – and into the tiny, autonomous "leaf-node" systems labeled the Internet of Things. So no change of culture, outlook or execution is expected from Simon Segars but maybe that's the point. ARM's business model is working well and there was no need to go outside to find a CEO. And perhaps that is the starkest contrast to Intel. The other challenge for Segars will be a more personal one. East has been a safe pair of hands to carry ARM forward after the ebullient, salesy approach of Sir Robin Saxby. When you look at numbers like 8.7 billion ARM-based chips delivered in 2012 it is clear that East will be hard act for Segars to follow.