Oh so NOW the board wants to focus on technology? Would have been nice if they'd realized that years ago when they hired Pat to refocus on the product.
Everyone wants to blame everything on Pat but he performed a near miracle bringing IFS from well behind TSMC to parity in a few short years and they re-retired him just before it starts getting turned into products. Now when Pat's fruits start to ripen someone else will get credit because the board doesn't understand how long the product cycle is in this business. The only real mistake Pat made was he should have started cutting the fat from day 1. Intel was already flailing and it would have softened the landing a lot more. Lisa Su didn't turn AMD around in 6 months either.
This is a perfect example of why I was saying they didn't need to replace Pat, they needed to replace the board that isn't technology focused so much as investor focused. That's what got Intel where it is to begin with and if the suits aren't on board the CEO can only do so much.