How To Build A $40bn IC Company From $1.75m Capital
February 15, 2021
“You need to be the best in the world,” Sir Robin Saxby, founding CEO of ARM, told the GSA Entrepreneurship Conference in 2003 when Arm was 23 years old.
“ARM is best at MIPS per Watt and MIPS per $,” added Saxby.
He recalled how he had to overcome the disadvantages of $1.75m in seed capital, no product except a chip design, no employees except 12 IC designers plus himself and no marketing.
To overcome these weaknesses he had to find partners.
“If you can get the money from a customer rather than a VC you get a better returm,” Saxby told the conferees, advising “get customers intimately involved with the project.”
To read the full article, click here
Related Semiconductor IP
- ISO/IEC 7816 Verification IP
- 50MHz to 800MHz Integer-N RC Phase-Locked Loop on SMIC 55nm LL
- Simulation VIP for AMBA CHI-C2C
- Process/Voltage/Temperature Sensor with Self-calibration (Supply voltage 1.2V) - TSMC 3nm N3P
- USB 20Gbps Device Controller
Related Blogs
- Partnering, by Saxby.
- 'Take An ARM licence,' Saxby Tells Intel.
- Arm to IPO after Nvidia bid fails
- Mali-G710: a developer overview
Latest Blogs
- A Comparison on Different AMBA 5 CHI Verification IPs
- Cadence Recognized as TSMC OIP Partner of the Year at 2025 OIP Ecosystem Forum
- Accelerating Development Cycles and Scalable, High-Performance On-Device AI with New Arm Lumex CSS Platform
- Desktop-Quality Ray-Traced Gaming and Intelligent AI Performance on Mobile with New Arm Mali G1-Ultra GPU
- Powering Scale Up and Scale Out with 224G SerDes for UALink and Ultra Ethernet