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Ex-Xeon Chief Lisa Spelman Leaves Intel and Joins Cornelis Networks as CEO

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Cornelis Networks, a leading independent provider of intelligent, high-performance networking solutions, today announced the appointment of Lisa Spelman as its new chief executive officer (CEO), effective August 15. Spelman joins Cornelis from Intel Corporation, where she held executive leadership roles for more than two decades, including leading the company's core data center business. Spelman will succeed Philip Murphy, who will assume the role of president and chief operating officer (COO).

"Cornelis is unique in having the products, roadmap, and talent to help customers address this issue. I look forward to joining the team to bring their innovations to even more organizations around the globe."




"As companies race to evolve their infrastructure for AI workloads, one of the biggest challenges they face is stitching together the enormous amount of compute required from CPUs, GPUs and accelerators. Being able to do this in a highly efficient way will make or break an organization's ability to compete in the world of AI," said Spelman. "Cornelis is unique in having the products, roadmap, and talent to help customers address this issue. I look forward to joining the team to bring their innovations to even more organizations around the globe."

Spelman joins Cornelis from Intel, where she was most recently corporate vice president in the Data Center & AI Group and general manager of Xeon Products and Solutions. During her tenure, she expanded Xeon's capabilities to accelerate AI workloads, establishing CPUs as a leading inference engine across the industry. Spelman also held several senior leadership roles within Intel's IT organization, including infrastructure operations and engineering, as well as positions in finance, data center product and brand marketing, and sales.

"Lisa brings unparalleled breadth and depth of expertise in every aspect of building and scaling a successful business. She is already well known and trusted by our customers for her ability to help them develop the next generation infrastructure they need, which will be invaluable as we look to expand deeper into the enterprise and cloud AI markets. I look forward to partnering with her and the rest of the Cornelis leadership team as we prepare for our next phase of growth," said Murphy.

The Cornelis Omni-Path high-performance interconnect product family is used by scientific, academic, government, and commercial organizations around the globe and is well known for its flexibility and efficiency. The company is now preparing to deliver its next generation solution, CN5000. Designed specifically for organizations deploying AI and HPC environments, this new line is engineered to address the escalating demands and scale required for modern workloads on network infrastructure. The CN5000 family is meticulously crafted to enhance performance, scalability, and agility, enabling AI infrastructure to achieve optimal throughput and efficiency, maximizing computing investment returns.

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Phoronix just did benchmarks leaving Intel Xeons in the proud third place in CPU makers...
 
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This seems like a nothing burger...
 
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This seems like a nothing burger...

First time I´ve heard of her, and I was thinking the same. Until I started thinking. VP and General Manager of the Xeon department.... thats not nothing.

Since I know nothing about her, but quite a lot about Xeons, I cant help but wonder; did she leave because she had very little/nothing to work with, or because she was unable to do something with what little there was?

I cant say I envy her former position as head of Xeon. I would not want the job of leading a department tasked with beating AMD Epycs by putting 64+ Raptor/Golden Cove cores on a single package and still have a system that even remotely resembles what we think of as a computing platform.

Too bad Intel ended up where they did. I really enjoyed playing with the X58 and X99 Xeons and I still have them. Would have been nice to have the 2022-23 equivalent to play with.
 
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Now they have a chance to put someone competent in charge of this product line and fix it. Xeons have progressively gotten worse, delayed, power hungry, hyper segmented, too expensive for what they are and when they are, and handily beaten by the competition. Is it all her fault? probably not all of it. It also used to be that it was possible to put a Xeon in a regular consumer motherboard (X99) and use RDIMMS in it. Those were the good old days. The marketing department seems to be in full control over intel, and destroyed it. Intel is in her rear view mirror now.
 
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Now they have a chance to put someone competent in charge of this product line and fix it. Xeons have progressively gotten worse, delayed, power hungry, hyper segmented, too expensive for what they are and when they are, and handily beaten by the competition. Is it all her fault? probably not all of it. It also used to be that it was possible to put a Xeon in a regular consumer motherboard (X99) and use RDIMMS in it. Those were the good old days. The marketing department seems to be in full control over intel, and destroyed it. Intel is in her rear view mirror now.
Judging from her LinkedIn profile, her background is in finance as well. In any case, the issues with Intel's products are primarily due to dropping the ball on the fab side.
 

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Judging from her LinkedIn profile, her background is in finance as well. In any case, the issues with Intel's products are primarily due to dropping the ball on the fab side.

Getting people with MBAs and finance focuses out of being in charge of organizations out side of the roll of CFO is critical for Intel's turn around. For years they have run the company into the ground trying to drive short term stock price and short term profitability. Likely she should have moved on earlier.
 
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