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Title: Intel Talent Bleed Continues

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/12/2136201/i...

Intel's long-time Xeon chief architect Ronak Singhal is leaving the company
after nearly 30 years, marking yet another high-profile departure amid
Intel's leadership churn and intensifying competition from AMD and Arm-based
cloud CPUs. The Register reports: The Carnegie Mellon alum holds degrees in
electrical and computer engineering, along with at least 30 patents involving
CPUs. Singhal joined Intel in 1997 after spending the previous summer as an
intern at Cyrix. After a year in Intel's Rotation Engineers Program, he spent
the remainder of his tenure helping to develop some of the chipmaker's most
consequential and, at times, controversial processors. Most notably, Singhal
oversaw the core development of Intel's 22nm Haswell and 14nm Broadwell
processor architectures. His innovations aren't limited to the datacenter
either, with his architectural contributions playing a significant role in
the success of Intel's Core and Atom processor families as well. [...]
Singhal is only the latest Xeon lead to jump ship since the start of the
year. In January, Sailesh Kottapalli, another senior fellow, left for
Qualcomm barely a month after former CEO Pat Gelsinger's unceremonious
"retirement." Even before Gelsinger's eviction, Intel's datacenter group has
been something of a revolving door. Last summer Singhal's long-time colleague
Lisa Spelman departed the company, eventually landing a spot as CEO of HPC
interconnect vendor Cornelis Networks. Her replacement, Ryan Tabrah, lasted
seven months in the role, about half as long as Intel datacenter boss Justin
Hotard, who defected for the forests of Finland to lead Nokia as its new
President and CEO back in April. In fact, the churn now extends all the way
to the top. On Monday, Intel announced its CEO of Products, Michelle Johnston
Holthaus, would be leaving the business. The move is part of a broader
executive shakeup that will see former Arm engineer Kevork Kechichian take
over as head of Intel's datacenter engineering group. Jim Johnson, meanwhile,
will take over as head of the chipmaker's client computing group while
Srinivasan (Srini) Iyengar will head up a new central engineering division.

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