Can Intel’s ‘boy wonder’ pull a Steve Jobs? MarketWatch 1/13/2021
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Pat Gelsinger left Intel Corp. more than a decade ago, when it was clear he would not become CEO after 30 years at the company.
On Wednesday, he finally got his dream job, but faces quite a task in returning the chip giant to the glory days of which he was a part.
Gelsinger started his career at Intel at age 18, and during his 30-year tenure, he said in a note to employees, he “had the honor to be mentored at the feet of” Intel co-founders Bob Noyce, Gordon Moore and Andy Grove. He eventually became the company’s first chief technology officer in 2000, and held other executive positions, only to leave in 2009 to go to EMC Corp., now part of Dell Technologies Inc.