My weekend thoughts on the messiah.
A golden boy who has bleed Intel blue for really his WHOLE Life.
Started at Intel when he was 18, and can't think in the way Intel really needs. Sure he talks a good talk that everyone including world democracy governments wish what he talks will become true. Wish doesn't change engineering, physics, nor business.
Much is made about his supposedly high Education including degrees at Stanford and Santa Clara, but seriously he was just a part time student just getting his paper to have the pedigree, and it does sound pretty impressive doesn't it STANFORD, LOL.
Do people know much about the Stanford MS program that was running during those days where almost anyone could get in as long as they were getting bankrolled by companies. They took classes remote, paid almost double the tuition and trust me the classes didn't fail anyone. Sure you could learn something, Pat got his education at Intel.
Sure he was talented a golden boy and likely if he had gone to school and got degree the real way he'd have some other things under his belt, but he was really tutored by the best of the Intel managers, but his experience is very different than Noyce, Grove, Barrett in think and conditioning. A visionary leader usually for a new company that needs to be revamped doesn't usually find that visionary leader from within, especially one brain washed and seeing Intel from when it was the king and running a monopolistic enterprise. Usually you need someone that sees the world a different and unique outside prospective and PAT doesn't have ANY of that. Much has been made of his decade away, but he was top dog there, very different. What seals my view is all his preaching these days and certainty of going to the old intel while NOT addressing the real things that are stacked against Intel from every side.
Between the background and all he says my friends is why all he can offer is go back to the old to bring back the glory.
The world has changed, the business has changed, the competitors leaders have much more world and real world formative youth that has created a brain that can separate Intel koolaid dreams from real world reality.
IDM 2.0 and Foundry and the resurrection is fantasy.
List any company that resurrected itself by returning to its roots in the Technology world, any? There aren't, don't mention Apple as they didn't become a king again in computers.