ARM news round-up:

• NEW: See video Q&A following Simon Segars’ participation on last week’s Churchill Club panel and link to download the new eBook, Shared Purpose: A Thousand Business Ecosystems, a Worldwide Connected Community and the Future from former Harvard Professor James Moore.  Shared Purpose details the lessons learned from Moore’s comprehensive study of a collaborative, connected community, providing blueprints for how other companies and industries could benefit from a similar approach. Both the Q&A and download link to the eBook can be found here.
• UPCOMING: ARM analyst and investor day on May 21 from 9:30am – 12 GMT. A webcast will be available following the presentations at www.arm.com/ir. ARM presenters include Simon Segars, president and CEO designate, Dipesh Patel, EVP and GM, Physical IP Division, Laurence Bryant, director of mobile solutions and Lakshmi Mandyam, director of server systems and ecosystems.
• LogMeIn, Inc. announced a collaboration with ARM to simplify and accelerate commercial development on the Internet of Things (IoT). As part of the agreement, the companies are cooperating on LogMeIn’s Xively Jumpstart Kit, a rapid prototyping-to-production bundle that significantly reduces the cost, complexity and learning curve required to bring IoT-based connected products and solutions to market.
• Broadcom introduces new, highly integrated SoC based on dual-core Cortex-A9 processors optimized for SMB and enterprise networks. 

Connected Communities and Cross-Industry Collaboration

Last week in San Francisco, ARM President and CEO Designate, Simon Segars joined technology forecaster Paul Saffo and James Moore, a former Harvard professor and an expert on leadership and change in large-scale systems for a lively discussion on implications and opportunities for new cross industry collaboration. The conversation ran the gamut of discussing the early days of ARM and the evolution of its open business model to what it would take for companies to switch to a more open model. As Segars noted, maintaining an ecosystem of more than 1000 partners isn’t without its challenges, particularly when there are some members of the ecosystem who may want to put each other out of business while building an SoC is only getting more and more complex. You can watch the event here in its entirety.  

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