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

Post by JohnJamesRambo » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 4:09 PM UTC

totalZero wrote: post #5

hehehaha wrote: post #4

Really don’t see how this changes things inside Intel. Pat Gelsinger is not new to Intel at all. This is just playing musical chairs.

Pat was fairly effective at VMW. The fact that he himself is not new to Intel is probably beneficial for the company, but there's a pretty substantial difference between being CTO and actually steering the ship. I'm not comparing Gelsinger to Steve Jobs in a general sense, but Jobs wasn't new to Apple when he returned -- and yet Jobs' return to leadership was transformative for the company.

Post by CyberDildonics » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 4:15 PM UTC

fxtentacle wrote: post #19

To me, that move makes a lot of sense. But judging from the other comments, I'm the only one with that assessment. I'm my opinion, the secret sauce that makes Intel dominate certain industries is software. And it has been for some years already. If you need really fast mathematical number crunching, e.g. high frequency trading or realtime audio filtering, then you need MKL, the Intel math kernel library. If you want…

Post by 0xEFF » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 4:18 PM UTC

fxtentacle wrote: post #26

danpalmer wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To me this description sounds like a specialist high performance computing company rather than a consumer technology company. That may be a perfectly reasonable market to be in, but is that type of company worth $200bn? I'm not sure. Roughly 40% of their revenue is consumer chips where, apart from some games optimisation, they are no longer standing out from the crowd, and the leader is arguably Apple, with AMD doing…

I agree with your market breakdown, but surely not with your assessment. In the consumer segment, you have regular people trying to make vacation videos with software like Adobe Premiere and Adobe Media Encoder, or Magix. Nvenc quality is bad. AMD is horribly slow. The only fast high quality encode is with Intel's dedicated CPU instructions, which both apps heavily promote to their users. And the 30% that you mention…

Post by CyberDildonics » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 4:22 PM UTC

fxtentacle wrote: post #26

danpalmer wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To me this description sounds like a specialist high performance computing company rather than a consumer technology company. That may be a perfectly reasonable market to be in, but is that type of company worth $200bn? I'm not sure. Roughly 40% of their revenue is consumer chips where, apart from some games optimisation, they are no longer standing out from the crowd, and the leader is arguably Apple, with AMD doing…

I agree with your market breakdown, but surely not with your assessment. In the consumer segment, you have regular people trying to make vacation videos with software like Adobe Premiere and Adobe Media Encoder, or Magix. Nvenc quality is bad. AMD is horribly slow. The only fast high quality encode is with Intel's dedicated CPU instructions, which both apps heavily promote to their users. And the 30% that you mention…

Post by iamricks » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 4:24 PM UTC

satya71 wrote: post #13

The CEO of a semiconductor company needs to have an engineering background, IMO. The tech is too complex and too important to the business to have a CEO who doesn't understand the nuances. Wish Pat all the success at Intel. We need Intel to do better.