tech news Intel Bulks Up Engineering Leadership With Returning Technologist Sunil Shenoy

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Summary

In yet another sign that Intel's efforts to rebuild its engineering corps might be swift under the new incoming CEO, Intel announced today that Sunil Shenoy, a 33-year Intel veteran who left the company in 2014, will be returning to the company as the senior vice president and general manager of the Design Engineering Group.

 

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In yet another sign that Intel's efforts to rebuild its engineering corps might be swift under the new incoming CEO, Intel announced today that Sunil Shenoy, a 33-year Intel veteran who left the company in 2014, will be returning to the company as the senior vice president and general manager of the Design Engineering Group.

News that Pat Gelsinger, Intel's incoming CEO, would return to the company has sparked optimism among the rank and file as the company seeks to return to its deep technological roots with an engineer at the helm. 

Gelsinger is also attracting other talent, too: Guido Appenzeller, who hails from VMware, also announced via Twitter and Linkedin that he is joining Intel as the CTO of the Data Platforms Group. Appenzeller previously worked under Gelsinger at VMware.

Sunil Shenoy returns to Intel from his position at SiFive, where he was the senior vice president and general manager of its RISC-V program. Sunil previously served at Intel as the corporate vice president in charge of Intel's Platform Engineering Group, where his remit included microprocessor and SoC design across Intel's product groups. He also led the Visual and Parallel Computing Group and server and PC silicon development R&D and engineering, among other responsibilities.

 

My thoughts

Good news, right? In all seriousness, I hope that intel will get up and get moving. Seems that what linus said in that one WAN show is true," Key talent attracts key talent".

 

Sources

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-bulks-up-engineering-roster-with-returning-technologist-sunil-shenoy

[Mark Kaine]

it's crazy to think how many billions Intel probably lost simply because of a CEO who obviously had no idea wtf he's doing lol... 

 

 

[Lightwreather]

14 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

it's crazy to think how many billions Intel probably lost simply because of a CEO who obviously had no idea wtf he's doing lol... 

 

 

ikr, I just hope that with these many people back Intel, htey will be able to turn the ship around

[CommanderAlex]

On 1/28/2021 at 8:05 AM, J-from-Nucleon said:

a 33-year Intel veteran who left the company in 2014, will be returning to the company as the senior vice president and general manager of the Design Engineering Group.

Funny how after 2014, it seemed Intel was struggling with manufacturing for their future manufacturing nodes. 

 

Overall, I'm excited to see the CPU market heat up between AMD and Intel and this will benefit everyone. 

[Lakobrija]

15 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

it's crazy to think how many billions Intel probably lost simply because of a CEO who obviously had no idea wtf he's doing lol... 

 

 

Intel currently have record breaking earnings, they haven't lost anything, just earned more than ever

[leadeater]

Jim Keller is probably screaming in the distance "Why didn't you do this sooner then I wouldn't have had to resign!" lol

 

 

 

 

 

Doubt he actually cares but I do have to wonder if he would have stuck around if he were hired after these changes and not before.

[LAwLz]

7 hours ago, leadeater said:

Jim Keller is probably screaming in the distance "Why didn't you do this sooner then I wouldn't have had to resign!" lol

 

 

 

 

 

Doubt he actually cares but I do have to wonder if he would have stuck around if he were hired after these changes and not before.

He left Intel for personal reasons, so I don't think Intel could have done anything to keep him. 

[Brooksie359]

7 hours ago, Lakobrija said:

Intel currently have record breaking earnings, they haven't lost anything, just earned more than ever

Yes and no. Who can really know the money they lost by not innovating much during the last decade or so. Maybe they would have had way more profit than they already are having if they kept on innovating and moving on from 14nm. 

[leadeater]

1 hour ago, LAwLz said:

He left Intel for personal reasons, so I don't think Intel could have done anything to keep him. 

Personal reasons can mean a lot so as to why he left that's not been disclosed more than that. However recently there were a few murmurs as to why he left, and that was due to disagreements with Intel management over strategic direction and his disappointment of overall progress. Whether that is the only factors, maybe not, but he's only ever signed on with a company for specific interest in a project so if he feels like he's not achieving enough he could well choose to leave and I would have to say that usually comes under "personal reasons" when someone resigns like that. Neither party likes to air their business like that publicly and it's rather unprofessional to do so.

 

Personal reasons just as often means "I'm not getting what I wanted from this job so I'm leaving" as it does for non employer related reasons. I've known a few people who have changed jobs because of that, sometimes you join a company in a position and have expectations for your role and it doesn't pan out like you wanted or expect and that doesn't have to mean the employer is bad or did anything wrong. Sometimes the grass just isn't greener on the other side.

 

Here something is even more important in IT because of how small a country we are, "Don't burn bridges". I would say for a public figure like Jim Keller it would apply even more so, a certain Linus hasn't followed this mindset a few times, well a lot of times.

[D13H4RD]

15 hours ago, Lakobrija said:

Intel currently have record breaking earnings, they haven't lost anything, just earned more than ever

Financially, they're still really strong. 

 

But they've also lost a good chunk of their reputation thanks to their fumbles with evolving semiconductor manufacturing, notably 10nm. Intel would usually proudly tout "leadership" when it comes to manufacturing and lithography, but thanks to these foibles, notably under Krzanich's tenure, they can't, having to resort to basically extracting every last bit out of their aging 14nm node. 

 

That's one of Gelsinger's main things to fix up. 

[Rolling2405]

On 1/29/2021 at 5:13 AM, Lakobrija said:

Intel currently have record breaking earnings, they haven't lost anything, just earned more than ever

Um, they have?????

[Middcore]

Important to remember in stories like this that it will be quite some time before any effect of the hiring is felt, probably. The development timeline for microprocessors is measured in years. Intel could literally hire all the best engineers in the world tomorrow, have headhunters make everybody responsible for AMD's turnaround "an offer they can't refuse," and we wouldn't immediately see Intel take the lead. Both Intel and AMD's pipeline of new chips coming out within at least the next couple years is basically already set in stone. 

[Orangeator]

On 1/28/2021 at 4:44 PM, Mark Kaine said:

it's crazy to think how many billions Intel probably lost simply because of a CEO who obviously had no idea wtf he's doing lol... 

 

 

Yet, all you read in the news is how insane it is that CEO's make millions of dollars each year... It's almost as if, stay with me here, that having toxic/piss poor leadership at the top of a (massive) company results in the loss of millions if not billions of dollars, not including damage to the brand. Maybe they are paid extraordinarily well because of their importance. That said, sucks for Intel in this case, as they spent a fortune on a CEO who was clearly not qualified... Big RIP. 

[D13H4RD]

5 hours ago, Middcore said:

Important to remember in stories like this that it will be quite some time before any effect of the hiring is felt, probably. The development timeline for microprocessors is measured in years. Intel could literally hire all the best engineers in the world tomorrow, have headhunters make everybody responsible for AMD's turnaround "an offer they can't refuse," and we wouldn't immediately see Intel take the lead. Both Intel and AMD's pipeline of new chips coming out within at least the next couple years is basically already set in stone. 

Also worth noting that Intel is quite the Titanic in terms of size. It takes even longer for such changes to be reflected throughout the company versus a smaller company like AMD, whose smaller overall scale may be advantageous when it comes to responding to quickly. 

[leadeater]

49 minutes ago, D13H4RD said:

Titanic[....]. It takes even longer for such changes to be reflected throughout the company

I don't know about that, how about you ask the iceberg just how quick it can make a change happen 

 

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