Welcome to the TechMeme right home for Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

The search for a new Intel CEO has begun in earnest, but a change in leadership probably makes a wholesale transformation of the company more likely.

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Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Big follow-up on yesterday's big news.

Reuters says that Intel has begun shortlisting a handful of CEO

candidates, including former board member Lip Butan, who left in August 2024 after clashing with the outgoing CEO, Pat Gelsinger.

Quote, Tan, who was once seen as a contender for the CEO role, has in recent days been approached by Intel's board to gauge his interest in taking up the job, the sources said, requesting anonymity as the discussions are confidential.

Tan is an industry veteran and served on Intel's board of directors for roughly two years as part of a plan to restore the company's place as a leading chipmaker.

He joined the board in September 22 and

received expanded responsibilities a year later to oversee manufacturing operations. But Tan

departed in August after clashing with Gelsinger on several aspects of Intel's turnaround plan,

including the size of the company's workforce, its contract manufacturing strategy, and its

work culture, Reuters has

reported. Tan has previously served as CEO of Cadence Design Systems, where he spent more than a decade

and helped turn around the then-ailing design software maker's fortunes, end quote.

Tan is not the only candidate, though they are apparently the frontrunner at the beginning of the search.

To follow up on what happened, it looks like what we might have suspected happened.

Bloomberg's reporting says that Intel's board gave CEO Pat Gelsinger the option to retire

or be removed after the board lost confidence in his plans to turn the company around.

Quote, the clash came to a head last week when Gelsinger met with the board about the

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