Intel Announces Brian Krzanich As Its Sixth-Ever CEO

wiredmikey writes "Intel on Thursday announced that Brian Krzanich will take the reins as chief executive officer (CEO) of the chip giant, succeeding Paul Otellini who previously announced that he would step down. Krzanich has served as Intel's chief operating officer since January 2012, and has held a series of technical and leadership roles since joining Intel in 1982, and will become the sixth CEO in Intel's history."

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Re:What were Brian Krzanich's previous roles at In

[Anonymous Coward]

That's extreme hyperbole.

Brian Krzanich was trained in chemical engineering, and worked at Intel as a process engineer, and later managing entire factories. He also holds a patent in semiconductor processing. He's not a wall street MBA figurehead.

Intel spends 10 billion dollars a year exclusively on research and development. Naturally being the world's #1 chip producer, who sells chips in every country in the world and has 50,000 employees means that there is a ton of management to be done as well, but Intel does more "real world" work than 99% of other companies in the world.

Reigns?

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean he'll take the the reins.

Seems to be long-term decision

[boorack]

So they chose someone who was in this company for 30 years, almost half of it as engineer. I would call it smart move - especially if you compare them to, say AMD or HP - both suffering from somewhat randomly chosen CEOs interested in their bonuses and golden parachutes. Long term thinking is clearly in Intel's DNA - even if they occasionally slow down and get outinnovated by competitors (eg. AMD64). They'll be always there whatever happens - not by their sheer size but by quality of their management.

Re:What were Brian Krzanich's previous roles at In

[servognome]

That's insanity. A manufacturing company hiring somebody with hands on engineering experience at all levels. Everybody knows that to succeed you need an MBA who is great at marketing.