Sorry to see Pat retire. Did not agree with his vision for our company, but he had the good intentions. I'd say Intel should buy Tenstorrent and make Jim K. the CEO. Problem solved.
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Jim Keller would be a much better Product CEO than the diversity hire they have at the moment.
The company needs to be broken up because there may be no one to run Product and Foundry. It's too big and too complicated.
The disaggregation of the company is what I liked about the strategy that Pat was pursuing. His execution was not good, and lying to customers about what the company is capable of doing should always result in termination.
But the pursuit of spinning off or merging the product divisions and potentially merging Foundry with a company which knows how to run a foundry, those were the right path and still are.
Pat wanted equity partners but what is likely to happen now is a breakup and sale of various entities to stronger companies. All the managers involved in that should dust off their resume, cause they are gonna get axed.
Really ??? Jim Keller? ?? that Run-away rooster ?? couldnt survive in intel environment for 1 year, neither in Tesla autopilot team. Most outside people couldnt survive in intel environment - design, manufacturing combined in a highly political space. He is just not the right fit for intel. as we can see in Pat's Tenure, even 4 years is not sufficient to bring meaningful impact in this behemoth organization. Jim K doesnt have the passion, patience and loyalty to dedicate himself for a 6-8yr tenure at intel ( or even any other equivalently sized company) and bring a tangible difference.
He seems to be a good fit for startup environment, small team, nimble, quick to implement changes, and provides good monetary benefits in a short period.
Why not acquire Nvidia and thus get Jensen Huang?
Pat was fired. Partly because good intentions are not a workable plan. And putting a hack like Ann (with a blank check) in charge of R&D was a huge mistake that set Intel back 5 - 10 years at least.
Intel has money to waste on another fruitless acquisition?
It is strange that people have so much love and respect for Jim K. He was strange. I had meetings with him early in the morning. He was inarticulate, couldn’t speak intelligently about simple concepts. He looked haggard. I wasn’t sure if he had issues ie drinking. He also had lame recruits around him. His TA was a lame person constant kissing his a-s. He hired a chief of staff (yes, in addition to his TA) from outside, a woman located in Texas. You know TA, chief of staff positions are glorified assistant positions so hiring this woman from outside and also Texas was very strange. I don’t know if h succeeded in achieving anything at Intel. By the way, when BK was out and the CEO search was in progress, he said one CEO prospect, if she is hired, will fire him. That was Lisa Su, so I thought she fired him.
HE WAS FIRED!!! STOP WITH THE LIES!!!