Why did anyone believe in Pat?

Yeah he worked on the 486.
Great engineer, but he has no vision.

He became CTO of Intel in 2001.
What technology did Intel develop during his tenure other than x86 processors?
Larrabee? Fail
Xscale? Sold
WiMAX? Mega fail
Etc…

He then went to EMC and then VMware, and somehow totally missed the cloud computing revolution.

Now he’s back pitching a totally ridiculous war on three fronts against much better funded and talented competitors (CPU design, GPU/AI, Foundry).

It’s totally bananas insane.
It’s like he thinks it’s still 1999 and Intel is some premium tech company loaded with talent and deep pockets.

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I keep hearing this - “it takes time”

Ok.
When?
How?
What metrics should we track to measure progress?

It sure as fvck isn’t stock price, or revenues or cash flow.

Who will execute these plans?
What IS the plan?

Just bad mouthing the competition and mindless cheerleading aren’t really cutting it. Flat out lying to investors also isn’t going well.

Pat may is one of the very few that can fix Intel. Won't happen overnight.

I don't think even he believed in himself. He managed to fool the id--ts who call themselves BoD

I was never fooled.
He's going to be first Intel CEO to be fired twice from Intel.

He is just another failed student of Moore, Grove and Noyce. He is unworthy of their legacy.

He can do a lot of push-ups.

Pat is an excellent cheerleader. Problem is, Intel needs more leader then cheer.

Golden parachute choir boy.

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