Xeon chief architect: Engineering veteran leaves Intel
The clear-cutting at Intel continues. Senior Fellow Ronak Singhal is leaving Intel at the end of the month after 28 years.
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Intel's chief architect for Xeon processors, Ronak Singhal, is leaving Intel at the end of the month. This was confirmed to US media by a company spokesperson after rumors to this effect had surfaced.
Singhal is an Intel veteran: he joined the company in the summer of 1997 after studying electrical engineering. Over the years, he rose through the company ranks. In the 2000s, he was jointly responsible for the Xeon processors of the Nehalem, Westmere, Haswell and Broadwell families. He was thus involved in Intel's first 10-core processors of the Xeon E7 series, led by the Xeon E7-8870 from 2011.
Later, Singhal co-developed the CPU cores for Xeon, Core and Atom processors across all divisions. Most recently, he was the "chief architect for the Xeon roadmap and technology leadership". As he tended to work behind the scenes, there are hardly any public pictures of him. Singhal has a profile picture on X.
"Industry titan"
CRN quotes anonymous Intel colleagues who refer to Singhal as a "titan of industry". The engineer enjoys a good reputation throughout the industry. Regardless of his specific position, Singhal was also a so-called Senior Fellow.
According to Intel, Fellows represent "one of the highest levels of technical achievement within the company. They are selected for their technical leadership and outstanding contributions to the company and the industry."
In particular, the delays in Intel's manufacturing processes were a problem for Singhal and his teams, as Intel has long tied CPU architectures to specific manufacturing processes. With the years of delays in the 10-nanometer generation, Intel lost its technological edge.
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Management restructuring
It was only in February that Intel's last Xeon chief architect, Sailesh Kottapalli moved to Qualcomm. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan also recently replaced the head of the Data Center Group (DCG) with Kevork Kechichian from ARM. The DCG is responsible for the Xeon processors.
It is unclear whether Singhal is leaving of his own free will or was encouraged to do so. US media reports suggest the latter.
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