OP " Pat is 5 years too late, but really the only choice from the old Intel who can turn around TMG and the Intel stock."
Noodle this for a bit, what makes a good chip product is combination of great design and then manufactured cost effectively in a competitive process.
In Intel's glory days they had one if not two nodes technology advantage over everyone. Even a poor design ( and there were many ) could leverage the superior process advantage PPAC to beat AMD, Nvidia and ARMy. This created a empire of poor designers and architects who produced very ordinary products that everyone thought was great. Yeah there were some innovations. No remember everyone else was stuck one or two generation behind.
Spring forward to the last year or so, AMD, Nvidia and others all got 7nm, and Apple got 5nm to do serious product design. Where is Intel, still turning out big power hungry cores on 14nm and starting to get the taste of 10nm years late with 7nm also expected now years late.
How can Intel design compete agains the others with inferior design. Sorry the designers have now unique design secret, they are competing against equally competent designers at AMD, Qualcomm, Apple, Nvidia and others with superior process. The only reason Intel still makes money is they have x86 servers and client but AMD and Apple is showing what is possible with superior process.
The only way Intel climbs back in is to fix Hillsboro RD. Those guys are so broken, after being late with 14, even more late with 10, and showing they fixed nothing with 7nm also late. They are overworked, no vision nor leadership, the whole organization is totally a FUBAR.
Sorry Pat is no process wonder, and what can he do. There is no one person, or team he can bring in to fix LTD. They are a good two to three years behind and falling further and further behind.
The product team has no choice but move designs and pay top dollar to Samsung and TSMC to make stuff for any hope to compete.
Pat has lots of cheerleaders in both Intel and outside and likely everyone hopes he can bring them back, but sadly this is like believing the right leader could have rescued ATT, IBM, Kodak, Sun, etc.
The best Pat can do is do a Lisa and go fabless and use their unique position in X86, but what to do with the boat anchor called TMG and LTD? He needs to do it sooner than later, as they cost billions and squandered even more billions on terrible low ROI technology.
As the OP Pat would have been great, and had he been picked instead of BK maybe they'd have had a chance. He'll be a fine example of great executive can't execute a broken strategy if he goes the IDM route.