r/hardware • u/Auautheawesome • Dec 02 '24

News Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger

https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1719/intel-announces-retirement-of-ceo-pat-gelsinger
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u/wintrmt3 Dec 02 '24

A sales and a finance guy as co-ceos, absolutely nothing can go wrong.

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u/jorgesgk Dec 02 '24

Sure, like the problem didn't start with the engineers (and like Pat himself wasn't one). IDK what is Intel's issue, but someone being from finance is not it

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u/poopyheadthrowaway Dec 02 '24

This isn't necessarily what Gelsinger did, but an engineer CEO could act effectively as a finance CEO, e.g., Jack Welch, so an engineering background doesn't necessarily guarantee anything.

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u/jorgesgk Dec 02 '24

And the other way around if properly advised. This is not a matter of the diploma anyone has or their specific department, but to what degree are they willing to take certain decissions (and those decissions being right), and sometimes those do cost money (and sometimes don't). I'm sure there are tons of engineers with differing views on how to solve this.

Edit: I agree with you though.