Wednesday, January 13th 2021

Intel CEO Bob Swan to Step Down Effective February

The midnight bell seems to have struck for Intel CEO Bob Swan, with Intel announcing his departure from the CEO position effective February 15th. The news comes after a two-year tenure as Intel's CEO, in addition to seven additional months in which Bob Swan served as interim Intel CEO before officially assuming the position. VMWare CEO Pat Gelsinger will take over the CEO chair, and following this announcement, Intel's stock surged by more than 10%, while VMWare's stock dipped by 5% on the prospect of losing its CEO.

Patrick Gelsinger formerly served under Intel, where he climbed the ranks until reaching the coveted CTO position - and also served as Senior Vice-president and General Manager of the Digital Enterprise Group. He is also credited as being one of the driving forces behind the creation of standards such as USB and Wi-Fi, architected the 80486, and played key roles in 14 generations of Intel Core and Xeon processors. Investors expect Gelsinger's technical background to help steer Intel into less troubled waters when it comes to strategy and execution. in wake of Bob Swan's departure, Intel also announced that it expects fourth quarter 2020 revenue and earnings to exceed prior guidance, and that it will take to its January 21st earnings report to discuss the "strong progress" achieved by the company in the in-development 7 nm node.
Source: CNBC
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39 Comments on Intel CEO Bob Swan to Step Down Effective February

#26
deu
xSneakWhy are they announcing this now and not later at the earnings report next week?
Could be damagecontrol of whats to come ;)
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#27
gottimw
zlobbyYou have a million dollars severance package?
You did a shit job as CEO so we are firing you. Here have X million dollars because you tried your best.
Capitalism at its finest.
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#28
zlobby
gottimwYou did a shit job as CEO so we are firing you. Here have X million dollars because you tried your best.
Capitalism at its finest.
True dat. Don't hate the playa, hate the game.
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#29
mechtech
Caring1When some of your products are stillborn, others never eventuating and security flaws abound, saturate the market to keep that money rolling in. :kookoo:
Yeppers. Once you have market dominance that’s the way it goes.
gottimwYou did a shit job as CEO so we are firing you. Here have X million dollars because you tried your best.
Capitalism at its finest.
More like venture capitalism.....but ya the way it is now. What a sad unethical joke.
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#30
Chrispy_
yeeeeman1. the board needs to f*** shut up and let the CTO and engineering teams do their jobs;
FTFY, but yes - Intel's run by people who don't understand how Intel makes product. I've listened to a few interviews over the last few years that make me feel pretty sorry for any of the smart, enthusiastic young designers and engineers trying to break through the thick corporate ice sheet.
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#31
mtcn77
Chrispy_FTFY, but yes - Intel's run by people who don't understand how Intel makes product. I've listened to a few interviews over the last few years that make me feel pretty sorry for any of the smart, enthusiastic young designers and engineers trying to break through the thick corporate ice sheet.
It is a mediocre guess, it has nothing to do with the corporate team. Intel just had all of the eggs in a single basket which shifted its future projected timelines. It was a process intrusion that skewed anything past 14nm. Now that it has affected its revenues, not making sufficient chips, it is likely not to recover too soon.
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#32
watzupken
I think stepping down is a nice way to put it. It is quite obvious that he has been shown the "red card" by the board. While things did not improve during Bob's tenure, I feel he is probably doing what he can from what he inherited from his predecessor who was also "shown the red card" for "relationship with employee". Not sure how true is that, or just an excuse to oust him from the role because of multiple failures.
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#33
mtcn77
watzupkenNot sure how true is that, or just an excuse to oust him from the role because of multiple failures.
Definitely not. He was not some creep, in fact was very popular with the overclocker crowds. He has a photo with lab501.ro dammit.
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#34
voltage
KarymidoNwhen your CEO has to resign, it shows things are not going very good, and the near future might be a little bit rough...
go on, you don't have to only point out the obvious negative, it's OK to think positive and also point out the good of what may come later.
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#35
xorbe
SlizzoWait, Intel is FINALLY putting an engineer in the top spot?! Christ it's amazing it took them this long to figure out that maybe having someone that knows something about the product actually in charge as being a good thing.
This did not go well for AMD when engineer Dirk Meyer was CEO.
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#36
Ben Neeley
Id resign too if my top of the line cpus were outdone by cpus half the price made by the competition.
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#37
Slizzo
xorbeThis did not go well for AMD when engineer Dirk Meyer was CEO.
True, but it appears to be going swimmingly for AMD and NVIDIA.
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#38
ToxicTaZ
yeeeemanIntel needs a few things:
1. the board needs to f*** shut up and let the CEO and engineering teams do their jobs;
2. the new CEO needs to collaborate, understand and come up with strategies and risks to take to get back up to speed;
3. process issues need to be fixed. Either by asking for help from external, by hiring new experts, skipping some generations and move directly to EUV 5nm, don't know;
4. put in place a bold plan like Lisa did with Zen/RDNA. New architectures built from ground up, something like Conroe.
Intel has new architecture from the ground up! And starting this fall....

big.Little CPU design with new extreme IPC performance from Cove cores design.

Intel H6 LGA 1700 socket "PCIe 5.0" with DDR5 and USB4 WiFi-6E 5G technology coming out this Halloween. With 3 CPUs lineups with the new LGA 1700 socket.

12th gen 10nm++
Alder Lake (Golden Cove)
16/32 Cores (8+8)

13th gen 7nm+
Meteor Lake (Ocean Cove)
32/64 Cores (16+16) "3D Stacked"

14th gen 7nm++
Lunar Lake (Redwood Cove)
32/64 Cores (16+16) "3D Stacked)"

FYI
Intel 7nm EUV is = to TSMC 3nm EUV
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