Tue. 12/03 – Where Does Intel Go From Here?
Techmeme Ride Home
Brian McCullough
4.7 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
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. China goes tit for tat on banning things. Why ChatGPT can’t say certain names. And how is that shopping with AI agents thing going?
Links:
- Exclusive: Intel's CEO-shortlist candidates include former board member Lip-Bu Tan, sources say (Reuters)
- Intel CEO Forced Out by Board Frustrated With Slow Progress (Bloomberg)
- China retaliates against latest US chip restrictions (Financial Times)
- Why does the name ‘David Mayer’ crash ChatGPT? Digital privacy requests may be at fault (TechCrunch)
- The race is on to make AI agents do your online shopping for you (TechCrunch)
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the TechMeme right home for Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today. |
| 0:08.4 | 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. |
| 0:15.9 | China goes tit for tat on banning things. Why chat GPT can't say certain names, and how is that shopping |
| 0:22.1 | with AI agents thing going? |
| 0:24.2 | Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. |
| 0:32.9 | Big follow-up on yesterday's big news. |
| 0:35.9 | Reuters says that Intel has begun shortlisting a handful of CEO |
| 0:39.7 | candidates, including former board member Lip Butan, who left in August 2024 after clashing with the outgoing CEO, Pat Gelsinger. |
| 0:49.7 | 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. |
| 1:02.1 | 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. |
| 1:09.3 | He joined the board in September 22 and |
| 1:11.8 | received expanded responsibilities a year later to oversee manufacturing operations. But Tan |
| 1:16.8 | departed in August after clashing with Gelsinger on several aspects of Intel's turnaround plan, |
| 1:22.4 | including the size of the company's workforce, its contract manufacturing strategy, and its |
| 1:27.0 | work culture, Reuters has |
| 1:28.7 | reported. Tan has previously served as CEO of Cadence Design Systems, where he spent more than a decade |
| 1:35.2 | and helped turn around the then-ailing design software maker's fortunes, end quote. |
| 1:40.6 | Tan is not the only candidate, though they are apparently the frontrunner at the beginning of the search. |
| 1:46.5 | To follow up on what happened, it looks like what we might have suspected happened. |
| 1:51.5 | Bloomberg's reporting says that Intel's board gave CEO Pat Gelsinger the option to retire |
| 1:57.7 | or be removed after the board lost confidence in his plans to turn the company around. |
| 2:03.2 | Quote, the clash came to a head last week when Gelsinger met with the board about the |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Brian McCullough, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Brian McCullough and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.