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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."
That's nice. But Nintendo, a 124 year old company, has only had 4 presidents.
Per some Googling:
82 - 94, process engineer
94 - 96, manufacturing manager
96 - 97, plant manager
97 - 01, plant manager of another location
01 - 03, "responsible for implementation of 0.13-micron logic process technology"
03 - 10, "responsible for Assembly Test" (some sort of VP, not 100% on times)
10 - 12, senior VP of Manufacturing and Supply Chain
12 - now, COO
LegendMUD
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.
You mean he'll take the the reins.
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.
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.
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Dang! Just lost my mod points but - you're right. In my long career I've worked at lots of companies of all sizes, including 7 years at Intel. Easily one of the best run and most open-source friendly companies going. I was there when Andy Grove told Bill Gates to shove it when Bill asked them not to send any execs to speak at a Linux conference. Andy went himself.