Pat Gelsinger will be the new CEO of Intel after Bob Swan resigns

Intel's situation at the moment is complicated, although it seems that the company took a more positive path. After an internal reorganization that ended with the dismissal of Rendunchintala, it seems that things were calm. That is why we were so surprised that Bob Swan is going to leave his Intel CEO position, who will be replaced by Pat Gelsinger.

Bob Swan took over the reins of the company two years ago after the departure of Brian Krzanich. At that time, it was indicated that Krzanich had left the company because of being intimate with a worker. With time and the problems seen in the company, it seems that the reasons were really different and a smokescreen was generated.

Pat Gelsinger to be Intel's new CEO when Bob Swan steps down

The change in the direction of Intel will not be until next February 15. It will be then when Bob Swan is no longer officially the CEO of Intel and he is relieved by Pat Gelsinger. You will have the mission to pilot a really complicated ship that is not in the best of situations. Gelsinger noted that he was CTO of Intel and former CEO of VMWare.

The task for Gelsinger will not be exactly easy. He comes across a company with a multitude of problems and open fronts. Some of the outsourced CPU and GPU production, a giant delay to adopt the 10nm node, apparent delay in the 7nm node and know what else problems. Not to mention that AMD has passed them by and they are very far from NVIDIA in the field of AI and Deep Learning.

Curiously, at the end of last year, Daniel Loeb, director of the investment group Third Point Management, requested someone with a technical profile to head the company.

Through Intel's statement we know that: "it has made great progress in its 7 nanometer technology and expects to provide an update by the end of January.”

Omar Ishrak, an Intel executive, notes that Gelsinger worked for Intel for 30 years. Ishrak says “the time is right to make this leadership change to leverage Pat’s technology and engineering expertise during this critical period of transformation at Intel.”

Gelsinger was Intel's first CTO and helped develop USB and WiFi technologies. He was also an architect of the 80486 processor. He was also very important in developing the Core and Xeon processor families, as well as being responsible for 14 Intel processor families.