It was painful. First, it was painful to leave the company, as I was, I'll say, nudged out the door at that period of time. It took me years to get over it. I joke that I used to do the Intel bo-g when I went to sleep at night. To watch its decline and some of the decisions that were made, it was hard, it was emotional.
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Lol … that Elon pretended to work on the factory floor for 16 hours sleeping. Pat should do the same in his executive cubicle. Did anyone see that?
A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than decisions. He wants the record which he can display as an excuse for his errors. -Frank Herbert
Musk. "The reason I slept on the floor was not because I couldn't go across the road and be at a hotel. It was because I wanted my circumstances to be worse than anyone else at the company. Whenever they felt pain, I wanted mine to be worse," … he revealed that he slept on the floor to give assurance to the employees that their leader was with them instead of "drinking Mai Tai on some island".
You think Pat is going to give up his mansion to rally the troops? Is he inspiring to anyone?
Did anyone read the article in the link provided by OP? Time magazine has had the same trajectory in their industry as Intel has in semiconductors and this article is an example of why. What was the criteria to become one of the 100 most influential companies for the year? Followed up by an interview that only throws soft ball questions. How about asking about why revenue is down over a third since PG returned. How about asking what he is going to do to counter ARM taking market share. Pathetic.
Does anyone think Pat has turned Intel into a service provider? If not, IFS is doomed and people won’t care that you’re 10% better than TSMC which can fast follow you after 6 months. None of these new ‘nodes’ are even HVM yet.
Rather than talking to some m0ron reporter that can’t tell a potato chop from a microchip, he should be aggressively driving people to make IFS viable.
Say what you want about Elon, but he was sleeping on factory floors and working 16 hour days non/stop to drive Tesla manufacturing to scale up and eventually be in a position to have the best selling car in the world.
I don’t see Pat doing anything remotely close to that. And it shows with poor financial performance and a lack of customers.
Pat has a different role now.
CEO is different than CTO.
He needs to be a salesman since he needs to find customers for IFS.
The lack of any major customers is really worrisome given how much Intel is spending on fab capex. There is no level of x86 demand that justifies the current spend.
I knew Pat during Larabee, and I watch him now during update meetings. It is NOT the same person. Before he was all involved, he was the geek tech guy who was on the pulse of everything technology. Now, and I say this honestly...he is a traveling salesman.
"Well clearly, we are on a multi-year journey..." - PG
So five years is now a non-specific "multi-year" turnaround? Talk about moving the goal posts. 🥸
Few bothered to read the link. It’s Pat talking.
The ambiguity of the responses on this thread are either smart and hilarious or very sad. These are PG quotes, not a disgruntled employee.
Pat had god on his side right ?
He tries to be like Andy Grove on Time magazine who was the men of the year decade ago at its glory. Same America culture as US college kids "just do it" wearing Nike shoes running around to be like Michael Jordan in basket ball game. Too bad he cannot even jump or dunk.
It's "Farm-Boy"
Get help if you have not gotten over the job you lost. There is life after Intel. Make the most of years you have left.
Pats ramblings are corporate indoctrination at its finest. Good job Intel we now have a nerd who drank the kool-aid running the ship.
"To watch its decline and some of the decisions that were made, it was hard, it was emotional. I thought to myself, I could crash the company so much faster." Pat pauses to take another hit off his 6-foot tall bo-g, emblazoned with the Intel logo on the side.
I bet you view yourself as a victim in a lot of aspects in your life. Get over it, it’s just a job. If you made it more than that then it is your fault. You and all other employees both past and current are not special to Intel. Don’t expect anything other than the compensation you agreed on.
"Pleeeeaaaaaase please pleeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaase believe me" - Pat G.
Is that you Pattie Pat?