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Sir Robin Saxby was the founding CEO and Chairman of Arm, having joined Arm in 1991, and retiring in 2007. Since he left Arm, he has kept his hand in the industry both as an investor supporting entrepreneurs, as well as through institutions like the Royal Academy of Engineering and the University of Liverpool.
EE Times' executive editor Nitin Dahad caught up with Sir Robin in London, UK, in August 2026, to find out what drives him today and some of the activities he is still involved in, both in technology as well as academia. We also talk about some of his interests and passions, including his support for Liverpool Football Club.
Watch the full video conversation here.
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Sir Robin Saxby was the founding CEO and Chairman of Arm, having joined Arm in 1991, and retiring in 2007. Since he left Arm, he has kept his hand in the industry both as an investor supporting entrepreneurs, as well as through institutions like the Royal Academy of Engineering and the University of Liverpool.
EE Times' executive editor Nitin Dahad caught up with Sir Robin in London, UK, in August 2026, to find out what drives him today and some of the activities he is still involved in, both in technology as well as academia. We also talk about some of his interests and passions, including his support for Liverpool Football Club.
Watch the full video conversation here.
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In this video interview, Rafael Sotomayor, President and CEO of NXP Semiconductors, explains why scaling physical AI is not just about building bigger brains, but about putting the right intelligence in the right place. He tells EE Times Executive Editor, Nitin Dahad, “If we are to scale physical AI for humanoids, we need to ask ourselves: how do we mimic the human body?”
In order to do this Sotomayor explains NXP’s view of the architecture required for this: the neural axis architecture. This is a distributed approach to placing the right level of intelligence of each layer needed for physical AI: the reasoning layer, the coordination layer, and the reflex layer.
Based on this, he said, “There’s a spectrum [of intelligence] that makes a humanoid useful.”
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