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Arm CEO Simon Segars discusses AI, data centers, getting acquired by Nvidia and more

techcrunch.com, Oct. 07, 2020 – 

Nvidia is in the process of acquiring chip designer Arm for $40 billion. Coincidentally, both companies are also holding their respective developer conferences this week. After he finished his keynote at the Arm DevSummit, I sat down with Arm CEO Simon Segars to talk about the acquisition and what it means for the company.

Segars noted that the two companies started talking in earnest around May 2020, though at first, only a small group of executives was involved. Nvidia, he said, was really the first suitor to make a real play for the company – with the exception of SoftBank, of course, which took Arm private back in 2016 – and combining the two companies, he believes, simply makes a lot of sense at this point in time.

"They've had a meteoric rise. They've been building up to that," Segars said. "So it just made a lot of sense with where they are at, where we are at and thinking about the future of AI and how it's going to go everywhere and how that necessitates much more sophisticated hardware – and a much more sophisticated software environment on which developers can build products. The combination of the two makes a lot of sense in this moment."

The data center market, where Nvidia, too, is already a major player, is also an area where Arm has heavily focused in recent years. And while it goes up against the likes of Intel, Segars is optimistic. "We're not in it to be a bit player," he said. "Our goal is to get a material market share and I think the proof to the pudding is there."

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