Rene Haas

Certain parts of the world that have the capabilities either in terms of people, technology, innovation, they will find a way.

And they will find a way around the problem.

And once that happens, you've now created two parallel universes.

And then the US and the West would be at risk of that other ecosystem being an ecosystem of choice.

So if you can navigate for those licenses being expedited, the world works really well in semis when it's flat.

And a global ecosystem, may the best company win.

The company was started in the UK, in Cambridge, in a barn, part of a joint venture for the Apple Newton building a processor, a combination of a joint venture of Apple and VLSI Technology.

They needed a low-cost chip that could run off a battery.

They contracted a company to build the chip.

The chip wasn't so good, but a bunch of guys said, you know what?

The design's pretty good, and why don't we try to build a business from it?

And that's how Arm was born.

I'm the fourth CEO.

I'm the first one that is not from the UK.

And what I've been trying to do in the three and a half years that I took over is to keep the great scientists and technology innovation that we have in Cambridge

but inject a bit of a Silicon Valley aggressiveness and twist to moving faster and going quicker.

Now, as you said, half the employees are in the UK, but we've got folks globally, 2,000 people in Bangalore, probably over 1,000 in the United States, different parts of Europe.

So it's a highly global company.

And we go where the talent is, and we look for great engineers.

We need far more investment.