Article Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down in February, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to replace him

[DrMrLordX]

Looks like Gelsinger is trying to rehire some ex-Intel engineers. Notable (re)hire: Glenn Hinton.

New Intel CEO Making Waves: Rehiring Retired CPU Architects

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[Ajay]

Hinton is just one guy - but maybe, just maybe, this is a hint of good things to come. @dmens and others have commented on the brain drain at Intel; reversing that trend would be a positive sign.

 

[dmens]

Hinton is just one guy - but maybe, just maybe, this is a hint of good things to come.

Don't count on it LOL. There is a big difference between the new CEO asking his old friend to come back, versus somehow luring back the hundreds of the best people they deliberately laid off in 2015-2016, many of whom I know vowed never to return.

 

[gdansk]

Don't count on it LOL. There is a big difference between the new CEO asking his old friend to come back, versus somehow luring back the hundreds of the best people they deliberately laid off in 2015-2016, many of whom I know vowed never to return.

In the end, enough money can solve many vows.

 

[dmens]

In the end, enough money can solve many vows.

Have you seen their margins outlook?

Also if you were not there in 2016 you would not understand the indignity these people went through. There is a matter of self respect that either no money or an insane amount of money can make up.

 

[Abwx]

That Gelinsinger agreed to take the job probally means there's something going on with VMWare if anything.

Indeed, i guess that he s of the usual Intel culture, after all he was there when Otellini was in charge..

Pat Gelsinger: Bob and I struck a partnership while I was at VMWare about 5G.

Intel Reports Q4 2020 Earnings: Analyst Q&A Transcript

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So acting in the behalf of Intel even as an other firm s CEO...

 

[CHADBOGA]

Have you seen their margins outlook?

Also if you were not there in 2016 you would not understand the indignity these people went through. There is a matter of self respect that either no money or an insane amount of money can make up.

Why did Intel let go of so many very talented engineers?

Normally you want to hang on to your best talent and let go of the average performers.

Also, if they were particularly talented, did the projects they were working on, get sabotaged due to management incompetence?

 

[CHADBOGA]

Intel Reports Q4 2020 Earnings: Analyst Q&A Transcript

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So acting in the behalf of Intel even as an other firm s CEO...

Yeah, it is quite a mystery why the CEO of one company, would want to work with the CEO of a near monopoly company, when they have shared interests in each other's markets.

 

[dmens]

Why did Intel let go of so many very talented engineers?

Normally you want to hang on to your best talent and let go of the average performers.

Also, if they were particularly talented, did the projects they were working on, get sabotaged due to management incompetence?

Long story short, the metric management decided to use to lay people off turned out to have less to do with merit and talent and more to do with politics and short term budgets.

Also, talented people work on failing projects all the time. The fortunes of individual projects at a snapshot in time is not a particularly good indicator of talent of groups of people.

 

[jpiniero]

Indeed, i guess that he s of the usual Intel culture, after all he was there when Otellini was in charge..

I was talking more about like how VMWare's core product, the virtualization, isn't doing so great.

 

[moinmoin]

Looks like while some veterans come back some more are leaving.

Old news from back on January 23rd, Intel's Director of HPC Solutions Brock Taylor moves to AMD as Director for HPC software (likely working on ROCm).

Intels Director of HPC Solutions wechselt zu AMD - Planet 3DNow!

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[DrMrLordX]

@moinmoin

Hmm, wonder what that means for OneAPI, if anything.

 

[Asterox]

Why did Intel let go of so many very talented engineers?

Normally you want to hang on to your best talent and let go of the average performers.

Also, if they were particularly talented, did the projects they were working on, get sabotaged due to management incompetence?

For example ask Ampere, they have several former Intel employees.

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