Posted on Wednesday, February 06 2019 @ 10:22 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Last week, Intel appointed financial guy Bob Swan as its new CEO. After a long search, the chip giant basically made his interim-CEO position permanent, perhaps because it was hard to find a better candidate willing to take the job. EE Times had a chat with a couple of analysts to figure out if Swan is the right man for the job, and what he need to to to turnaround "battleship Intel". You can read the full piece
over here.
“I do think Intel‘s strategy is the right one,” said Patrick Moorhead, president and principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy. “The company needs to improve its execution, and bringing in an outsider without Intel experience didn’t make sense.”
[Jim] McGregor [, principal analyst at Tirias Research,] noted that Swan is not the first Intel CEO to come from a business rather than technical background. Paul Otellini, who served as Intel’s CEO from 2005 to 2013, was the first non-engineer to hold the post.
