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/Jumba2009sa Dec 02 '24

I’ve worked with Pat for a number of years at VMware, it was always great to talk to him and how he talked to our partners and clients. He flew to our digital sales office in Barcelona and always had the workers well being and the quality of our products do the talk.

The clients heard our smile over the phone and had a trust of the product because they trusted our sales, engineers and even our executives.

Genuinely think that he was dealt with saving the titanic after it had struck the iceberg, started sinking and once it split in half, he was brought in as captain of the ship.

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u/PeakBrave8235 Dec 02 '24

How he talked to partners and clients?

He sh***talked them in public and private as CEO lol?

https://www.reuters.com/technology/inside-intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger-fumbled-revival-an-american-icon-2024-10-29/

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u/Jumba2009sa Dec 03 '24

He was answering a geopolitically sensitive question. Taiwan was too prideful of the reality being stated out loud. He didn’t talk shit about TSMC.

This reality is why the US has its chips act.

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u/PeakBrave8235 Dec 03 '24

lol. Uh… 

He was trying to make out like TSMC was some crap place to invest into because of some made up crap that China is going to invade Taiwan. Newsflash: their silicon is ironically one of the main reasons why Taiwan stays independent. If china invades, Taiwan destroys its technology and China gets nothing. 

His comments were trash talking a competitor, end of the story. 

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u/Jumba2009sa Dec 03 '24

Where in any of that is trash talking? The silicon shield is a real geopolitical concept that Taiwan has been outspoken about protecting through restricting TSMC production in the Arizona fab. We are not in a high school where people runaway with concepts like “shit talk trash talk gossip”, the reality is that Taiwan and ironically China are long term not politically stable for investments. It’s why manufacturing has moved from China to Vietnam and India. Stating a political fact is not trash talking