Intel Announces Brian Krzanich As Its Sixth-Ever CEO 43
wiredmikey writes "Intel on Thursday announced that Brian Krzanich will take the reins as chief executive officer (CEO) of the chip giant, succeeding Paul Otellini who previously announced that he would step down. Krzanich has served as Intel's chief operating officer since January 2012, and has held a series of technical and leadership roles since joining Intel in 1982, and will become the sixth CEO in Intel's history."
What were Brian Krzanich's previous roles at Intel (Score:1)
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Intel is in the business of making chips. Given that not making chips would lead to a nosedive in revenue for Intel, I think it is a little more than coincidental to the fact that they are also a big company.
Re:What were Brian Krzanich's previous roles at In (Score:5, Insightful)
That's extreme hyperbole.
Brian Krzanich was trained in chemical engineering, and worked at Intel as a process engineer, and later managing entire factories. He also holds a patent in semiconductor processing. He's not a wall street MBA figurehead.
Intel spends 10 billion dollars a year exclusively on research and development. Naturally being the world's #1 chip producer, who sells chips in every country in the world and has 50,000 employees means that there is a ton of management to be done as well, but Intel does more "real world" work than 99% of other companies in the world.
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If I had mod points I would mod you up
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Re:What were Brian Krzanich's previous roles at In (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:What were Brian Krzanich's previous roles at In (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:What were Brian Krzanich's previous roles at In (Score:5, Informative)
82 - 94, process engineer
94 - 96, manufacturing manager
96 - 97, plant manager
97 - 01, plant manager of another location
01 - 03, "responsible for implementation of 0.13-micron logic process technology"
03 - 10, "responsible for Assembly Test" (some sort of VP, not 100% on times)
10 - 12, senior VP of Manufacturing and Supply Chain
12 - now, COO
Seems to be long-term decision (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:What were Brian Krzanich's previous roles at In (Score:5, Insightful)
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That's insanity. A manufacturing company hiring somebody with hands on engineering experience at all levels. Everybody knows that to succeed you need an MBA who is great at marketing.
Depends on the manufacturing, if you're manufacturing toothpaste that is pretty much the same white goo as everyone else (hint, the coloring, taste and whatever is just superficial) then probably it's advertising, product placement, brand management and whatnot to make people choose yours over the next one that might be 5% more effective but nobody will ever notice. Processors on the other hand are intensely benchmark driven, it's very hard to talk your way out of engineering fail when you don't deliver - t
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While there is a major technical side to processors, a lot of it is not to make them better in benchmarks. Architecture drives benchmarks, manufacturing improvements can contribute, but usually they are more about the bottom line. Die shrinks more die per wafer and better yields = profit.
That said my post was
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One can also make toothpaste more cheaply and win that way. Streamline manufacturing processes, find cheaper sources of raw materials, etc. And this Intel CEO has plenty of experience with that side of a business. This is critical for Intel since they need to make their chips cheaper than everyone else and be seen as a reliable supplier of parts.
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Intel does a whole lot more than CPUs for PCs. If the home PC industry vanishes they'll still be making chips, just not as many and not as many premium ones. They've got chips that compete with ARM too, and they're not locked out of making ARM chips anyway as they've licensed it before in the past. They've licensed ARM before and can get back into that big time in short order. Then there's still the PC server side industry, and that's not vanishing, something's got to be there running the web searches and social networks. Look inside those iOS and Android devices and count the chips, some of those are from Intel. And the PC desktop won't die and vanish, it's still going to remain big in the workplace and for people who do more with their computer than update the social status, it'll just diminish.
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Oh I don't disagree that Intel makes a lot of chips. Their flagship products are their CPUs. And that market is in danger or being overtaken by ARM processors indirectly as people start using more tablets and smartphones. So far Atom hasn't made much of an impact.
MS is in the same boat. The bulk of their revenue and profit is Windows and Office. More people choosing tablets and cloud software affects MS. So far the offering from MS have been lackluster.
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Growth is in portable computing, but standalone home computers aren't going away anytime soo
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Intel doesn't want to put the hurt on AMD - because AMD is keeping the government off their back in the name of competition. (If AMD fails, the government will probably force AMD's patents that Intel licenses to be distributed to everyone else, and the government may split Intel up into foundry and design).
And Intel's a reliable supplier - they don't have shortages of parts,
Toothpaste (Score:2)
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Intel's business is heavily focused on gross margins. Just look at how the stock tanks when it dips below 60%.
At Intel many of the foundry type applications are done when certain technology processes are being warmed down (machines have been fully amortized, processes have been stable and capable for years, and there aren't any breakthroughs needed to ge
Nintendo has only had 4 (Score:5, Interesting)
That's nice. But Nintendo, a 124 year old company, has only had 4 presidents.
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There have been three Yamauchi's as president. Iwata is the only unrelated president. Yamauchi adapted his son-in-law to take over the company. Then Yamauchi adapted his son-in-law and his grandson took over the company. Finally Iwata became president.
Re:Nintendo has only had 4 (Score:5, Funny)
That's nice. But Nintendo, a 124 year old company, has only had 4 presidents.
So it's like the Vatican -- they (usually) wait until they die?
Re:Nintendo has only had 4 (Score:4, Interesting)
This is very common in Japan. Peoples employers/employees are treated like family. Not saying it's always a good family, but just jumping from job to job is not normal there at all. Especially at the executive level.
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Have you played Pikmin 3? How about the new Smash Bros.? Perhaps the new Mario Kart or Zelda? I wouldn't count Nintendo out yet.
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That's nice. But Nintendo, a 124 year old company, has only had 4 presidents.
That's nice, but I'd put more money on Intel surviving the next 100 years than Nintendo.
Reigns? (Score:4, Insightful)
KRZanich? (Score:2, Funny)
I'd like to buy a vowel, Pat.
Impressive (Score:3)
I don't know if I'm more impressed that they've only had 6 CEOs, or that they selected a guy who has risen from engineer through their ranks for 30 years.