Intel drops two high ranking Intel staff in the last six weeks
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On June 11th Jim Keller (Senior Vice President of Intel’s Silicon Engineering Group) retired immediately - Former tenure at AMD, Tesla, and Apple. - Link
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Next on June 27th Murthy Renduchintala (Chief Engineering Officer) departs due to a massive layoff - Link
An interesting note is that Ann Kelleher who is a 24-year Intel veteran will lead the development of 7-nanometer and 5-nanometer chip technology processes.
Editorial
With ARM, AMD, Nvidia, TSMC leading the charge, Intel might start their downward run. They are now relying on TSMC for fab capacity in hopes to outbid AMD and constrain supply. AMD is quickly growing in the enterprise space and providing comparable performance.
I believe we (consumers) are in for a great few years of accelerated CPU development.
I kind of find it weird that Jim Keller's departure is being linked to Intel's 7nm woes. My understanding is he is a microprocessor architecture guy, not a fabrication guy.
What "massive layoff" was there on June 27? That isn't true. Intel isn't yet relying on TSMC either, just said that they're open to moving more capacity there.