"Pat Gelsinger was one of the front runners to take over Intel years ago when he was asked to take over Larrabee Microarchitecture; that effort was supposed to finally give Intel a high-end GPU that could compete with NVIDIA and AMD. However, the project ran into big challenges. While internal reporting indicated things were going surprisingly well – few to no problems – the reality was far different. One of the best managers in the company, having been mentored by Andy Grove and incredibly well regarded, he should have become CEO in the early 2000s, but, instead, he was forced out"
https://www.eweek.com/pc-hardware/intel-arc-pat-gelsingers-revenge/