Intel Rehires Nehalem’s Chief Architect to Build a New High-Performance CPU By Joel Hruska on January 22, 2021 at 9:11 am This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Intel’s new CEO is already putting his own stamp on the company, even if he doesn’t formally take power until February 15. News broke today that Intel will rehire former Intel Senior Fellow Glenn Hinton to work on an “exciting high-performance CPU project.” Hinton spent 35 years with Intel and led development on the Pentium Pro (P6) microarchitecture, the Pentium 4 microarchitecture, and Nehalem. He also worked on Intel’s i960 project. Nehalem is what he’s best known for.