Lip-Bu Tan reorganizes Intel's management team
Intel's interim boss MJ leaves. An ARM man takes over the server division and a semi-custom team is created in the style of AMD.
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Under Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Lip-Bu Tan, Intel is reorganizing a large part of its management team. Jim Johnson is now officially taking over the Client Computing Group (CCG) from former head Michelle Johnston “MJ” Holthaus. The CCG is responsible for all end customer products, primarily core processors.
MJ spent over 30 years at Intel. She was responsible for the CCG from the beginning of 2022 to the end of 2024. After the departure of the previous CEO, Pat Gelsinger, she took over Intel's fortunes as Co-CEO for a few months together with CFO David Zinsner. Jim Johnson took over the CCG on an interim basis at that time.
Since Tan's appointment as CEO, MJ has not been given her post. Now she – as usual with such high-profile departures – is to retain an advisory role for a few months before leaving Intel altogether. Johnson was recently present at the IFA as head of the CCG.
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Xeon CPUs and semi-custom chips
Engineer Kevork Kechichian is taking over the Data Center Group (DCG) for Xeon processors. He spent the last 2.5 years at ARM in a senior engineering role, before that almost four years at NXP, and before that 12 years at Qualcomm.
The new Central Engineering Group (CEG) is being created under Srini Iyengar. The engineer moves from EDA tool developer Cadence to Intel after 28 years. In addition to the design of cross-divisional hardware functions, Iyengar is responsible for a new semi-custom team, which is to design chips for external customers using Intel's own CPU cores, for example.
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He was already a senior engineer at Cadence for six years and worked on designs for customers. Cadence is one of the world's three largest developers of electronic design automation (EDA) software—companies around the world use these tools to design their chips. This is precisely where Intel has been said to be lagging for years.
The goal is clear: Intel wants to use its expertise to design chips for customers, which the chip manufacturing division Intel Foundry then produces. The latter is desperately looking for customers to keep its semiconductor plants busy.
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