The geopolitics of semiconductors, Robin Saxby, former CEO of Arm

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🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Robin Saxby, former chief executive officer and chairman of Arm, discusses the history of his old company, the ever-changing complexities of how geopolitics impacts business and the urgent need for common sense among the world’s politicians to take a global approach to our largest problems.

Saxby became Arm’s first CEO in 1991 and oversaw its rise to prominence that would ultimately lead it to being one of the most important technology companies in the world. Saxby has also held roles at Motorola, Pye and European Silicon Structures.

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0:00.0	What was unique about on was I said we're going to create a technology that is suitable
0:15.0	and it was an advanced technology or risk technology that goes faster than convention to.
0:20.0	We will create a technology that can be used in everything.
0:25.6	We have like a technology Cold War with China that is going on for quite a long time.
0:31.6	And so what I'm saying is the will, I think, for more than the people.
0:36.6	Ordinary people recognize that through
0:38.9	collaboration, everything works better, and that's what we all have to hope for. For everybody
0:48.1	who uses a large language model, I put a health warning on it. It's a bit like you'd
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1:35.5	Hello and welcome to the UKTM podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakers of the UK
1:40.8	tech industry and the destination for all things UK tech related. I'm your host,
1:46.0	Jane Wakefield, and today I am joined by Robin Saxby, the ex-CEO and chairman of Arm, a semiconductor
1:52.8	firm and one of the UK's most successful businesses. Welcome, Robin. Good afternoon, Jane. Love
1:58.7	you to see you again. Now, I want to start off by giving you a little quote that I read about Arm,
2:03.7	which is that it started off as a group of designers setting out to change the computing
2:09.7	landscape from an old turkey barn in Cambridgeshire.
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