Intel sends Pat Gelsinger into the sunset
AFTER 30 YEARS as Intel's gunslinger, Pat Gelsinger will be hanging up his six guns and heading into the sunset.
Gelsinger is departing as senior vice president after a board room reshuffle with a marked deck, dealt by a bloke with stubble and a cigar jammed in his mouth.
Apparently the bloke bringing home all the chips in the Intel saloon was sales and marketing chief Sean Maloney, who is set to take over the company's major chip businesses. Laptop chips head Dadi Perlmutter was also laughing all the way to the bank as he's due to take over engineering for all chip divisions.
Officially Intel will announce the changes today but most newspapers have popped down to their morgues already to dust off their Gelsinger biographies.
Gelsinger, senior vice president and co-general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, joined Intel in 1979. He led Intel Labs, which encompasses many Intel research activities, and was Intel's chief technology officer.
Gelsinger has been a high-profile presence at many Intel forums over the years including its Intel Developer Forum event. In fact the dark satanic rumour mill thinks he will announce his departure at the IDF meeting next week.
Apparently he is headed for storage company EMC, where he will become chief operating officer for the company's information infrastructure product portfolio.
Maloney, Intel's sales chief, is also considered to be a possible successor to Intel's CEO Paul Otellini. µ
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Sales and marketing people are nothing but BS artists. Look how it turned out for HP with Carly as CEO.
Intel will be full of Maloney.
In Pasthi, Maloney is spelled al Money.
Giants of technology and business: Noyce, Moore, Grove, Barrett.
MBAs: the rest.
Gelsinger is, regrettably, of the old Intel CEO mold. A very rare chap who would be capable of leading the company through further periods of disruptive innovation.
Good luck, Pat.
Jerry Sanders was a salesman and he was ok on my book. But then again he had a Bachelor in Engineering. Hector Ruiz in comparison, sucked.
I thought Carly had a Bachelor in Medieval History and came from Lucent. When was she in marketing?
To TheINQ staff: a better title would have been "Kicking Pat gets kicked".
Pat might have some inconvience, yet Guiding Light, that Posthumous rebirth of radio & TV, has Ended this Friday.
Pat might pick up late tip on total losss of sponsorship, even if it was Soap bubbles.
started on radio in 1937, and made the transition to television in 1952. through the years and into a new century, Guiding Light chronicled family life in the mythical town of Springfield. Everybody, it seemed, had a dark secret
Like Hardware business, Guiding Light had its' pecularities. Menopausing Stars giving birth years latter, dying & recovering in same week. its Never Ending tale.
DRASHEK