Pat Gelsinger Returns To @Intel (This Time As CEO)

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Intel Corporation’s board of directors has named Pat Gelsinger as its new CEO. He will take on the role February, 15, 2021.

Pat Gelsinger is a highly respected CEO and industry veteran with more than four decades of technology and leadership experience, including 30 years at Intel where he began his career.

Omar Ishrak, independent chairman of the Intel board said “Pat is a proven technology leader with a distinguished track record of innovation, talent development, and a deep knowledge of Intel. He will continue a values-based cultural leadership approach with a hyper focus on operational execution. After careful consideration, the board concluded that now is the right time to make this leadership change to draw on Pat’s technology and engineering expertise during this critical period of transformation at Intel. The board is confident that Pat, together with the rest of the leadership team, will ensure strong execution of Intel’s strategy to build on its product leadership and take advantage of the significant opportunities ahead as it continues to transform from a CPU to a multi-architecture XPU company.”

Since 2012 Pat has served as the CEO of VMware , where he transformed the company into a recognised global leader in cloud infrastructure, enterprise mobility and cyber security. He almost tripled the company’s annual revenues. Prior to joining VMware, he was president and chief operating officer of EMC Information Infrastructure Products at EMC, overseeing engineering and operations for information storage, data computing, backup and recovery, RSA security and enterprise solutions.

Before joining EMC, he spent 30 years at Intel, becoming the company’s first chief technology officer and driving the creation of key industry technologies such as USB and Wi-Fi. He was the architect of the original 80486 processor, led 14 different microprocessor programs and played key roles in the Core and Xeon families.


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