Intel, the company, to set fire to many employees, says hard decisions need to be taken
Intel’s upcoming CEO Lip-Bo Tan on Tuesday considered significant changes in its chip manufacturing methods and artificial intelligence strategies ahead of its return to the company, two people familiar with Tan’s thinking told Reuters, in a comprehensive bid to revive the sick technology veteran.
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Intel’s upcoming CEO Lip-Bo Tan on Tuesday considered significant changes in its chip manufacturing methods and artificial intelligence strategies ahead of its return to the company, two people familiar with Tan’s thinking told Reuters, in a comprehensive bid to revive the sick technology veteran.
The new trajectory involves the restructuring of the company’s approach to AI and to address the deduction of the employees what the tan sees as a slow -moving and bloated middle management layer. Rebuilding the company’s manufacturing works, which used to make chips for Intel only at a time, but renovated for creating a semiconductor for outdoor customers such as Nvidia, one of the main priorities of the tan, these sources said.
In a Town Hall meeting after his appointment as CEO last week, he told the employees that the company would need to make “difficult decisions” according to two other people in the meeting.
Dylan Patel, an expert at the semiconductor industry, said that a major problem under Pat Gailinger, former Intel, who left the company in December, was “very good.” He said, “He did not want to fire a bunch of middle management in the way he needed.”
Chip design software firm Taal and Tech Investor’s former CEO, 65, Tan, Intel were members of the board, until they resigned in the last August. Returning as CEO, Tan is ready to handle the American icon after a decade of poor decisions by Tan three CEOs, in which it failed to create chips for smartphones and recalled the demand for AI processor, which allows the contestants to allow arms holdings and NVidia, opening new tabs to dominate markets.
Intel, Opse New Tab reported an annual loss of $ 19 billion in 2024, which was the first since 1986.
In the near period, Tan aims to improve performance in its manufacturing branch, Intel Foundry, which opens the new tabs, such as Microsoft, new tabs and opens Amazon, opens the new tab, attracts new customers aggressively, according to people.
This will also restart the plan to produce chips that power the AI servers and look at the servers beyond servers in many fields such as software, robotics and AI Foundation Models.
A spokesperson from Intel said in a ready statement, “Lip-bo will spend a lot of time to listen to customers, partners and employees as he comes on board and works with our leadership team in business positions for future success.”
Intel refused to comment further or provide tan for interview. Tan’s venture firm, Walden Catallist did not respond to the requests of the comment.
In the beginning, Tan’s strategy seems to be a good tuning of jayinger. The focal point of jaelinger’s turnaround scheme was to convert Intel into a contract chip manufacturer that will compete with the Taiwan Semiconder Manufacturing Company, opens the new tab, or TSMC, which counts Apple, opens the new tab, opens the new tab, NVIDIA and Qualcomm, opening new tabs as customers.
Gelsinger termed tens of billions of dollars for the construction of factories in the US and Europe to create chips for Intel and external customers, but was forced to bring back those ambitions as the market for Intel’s main products.
According to two sources familiar with Tan’s plans, Tan has been a vocal internal critic of the execution of Gallinger.