News Intel's head of datacenter and AI unit leaves to lead Nokia

[Admin]

Justin Hotard joins Nokia as its next CEO, barely a year after he joined Intel.

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[rluker5]

His tenure over the last year overseeing a bunch of disappointment in his department certainly was a mixed bag.

 

[jp7189]

Intel should acquire tenstorrent on the condition Keller takes leadership of the whole group.

 

[Pierce2623]

Intel should acquire tenstorrent on the condition Keller takes leadership of the whole group.

I think it’s too late. Intel’s value has fallen too much and Tenstorrent’s value gotten too high for that to happen now. Intel burned a ton of of their massive cash pile and would have to borrow against their own value, which has dropped hugely.

 

[Giroro]

Finally, an executive failed downward, instead of upward.

 

[bit_user]

Finally, an executive failed downward, instead of upward.

Failing downward probably happens more often than not, but you don't usually hear about it because it tends not to be newsworthy. In fact, what normally happens is they get fired, which is typically stated involving some sort of euphemism like spending more time with their family. Later, if they find anything at all, it's generally not as good.

That said, failure isn't so heavily stigmatized in sili-valley as in most places. So, a lot of failed founders and execs do get another bite at the apple.

 

[bit_user]

Intel should acquire tenstorrent on the condition Keller takes leadership of the whole group.

Yeah, it'd be sweet if they could somehow get Jim to take over as Intel's next CEO. I'm not sure he'd be interested, due to the amount of political BS, but I know he'd be good if he gave it a go and really got the board to support his plan for the company.

 

[DS426]

Yeah, it'd be sweet if they could somehow get Jim to take over as Intel's next CEO. I'm not sure he'd be interested, due to the amount of political BS, but I know he'd be good if he gave it a go and really got the board to support his plan for the company.

He doesn't need that much of the business side, even though he is apparently business-savvy; IMO, he just needs to head the CPU engineering department, and maybe slide over to their GPU house once Intel has their Ryzen moment.

 

[DS426]

His tenure over the last year overseeing a bunch of disappointment in his department certainly was a mixed bag.

I literally laughed out loud on this one. Thank you.
(Of course, I was thinking the same thing)

He's pretty fortunate to move into a CEO role in a company that big considering DCAI's performance, that's for sure. Apparently weather forecasters aren't the only gravy train gigs out there...

 

[bit_user]

He doesn't need that much of the business side, even though he is apparently business-savvy; IMO, he just needs to head the CPU engineering department, and maybe slide over to their GPU house once Intel has their Ryzen moment.

From reading and watching interviews with him, I think he could probably add more value in the CEO's chair, at this point in his career. You know he's CEO of Tenstorrent, right? He was not a founder - he stepped directly into that role, like 5 years after the company's founding.

Even at AMD, he wasn't lead architect of Zen. That was Mike Clark. Jim was a couple levels above him.

 

[Pierce2623]

Yeah, it'd be sweet if they could somehow get Jim to take over as Intel's next CEO. I'm not sure he'd be interested, due to the amount of political BS, but I know he'd be good if he gave it a go and really got the board to support his plan for the company.

Under Pat the pro they just recently jettisoned the last Keller project, Royal Core.

 

[bit_user]

Under Pat the pro they just recently jettisoned the last Keller project, Royal Core.

Is that the one with "rentable units"?

It was a shame to hear about that, but it's also hard to judge without knowing everything that went into that decision (which we outsiders will probably never know).

As much as it pains me to say it, they probably should've killed off their HPC GPUs and kept Royal Core alive (assuming it was technically viable). Intel needs to stay at the cutting edge of CPU cores, if it wants to have a viable future in the CPU business, which is the whole foundation of the "design" side of the company. If Intel has no HPC GPUs on offer (which is basically the case now, given Ponte Vecchio is already EoL without a replacement), that won't change much.