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Former Intel CEO has a radical solution for the company: Fire the board and rehire Pat Gelsinger


Barrett, who ran Intel from 1998 to 2005, didn't mince words in his opinion piece published on Fortune, where he expressed a starkly different take. He says...

A hot potato: Craig Barrett is firing shots at Intel's board over its proposal to break the company up into multiple smaller pieces and sell parts of the business to TSMC. He says the only viable path forward for the company is to stay unified and double down on its latest 18A process node and imaging technologies like high NA EUV lithography. "Pat Gelsinger did a great job at resuscitating the technology development team," Barrett wrote, highlighting Intel's lead in novel areas like backside power delivery in addition to the 18A process itself.

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'Fire the Intel board and rehire Pat Gelsinger,' argues former Intel CEO Craig Barrett