Intel announces key executive shake-up, says products chief Holthaus will exit

Holthaus, who will be separated for more than thirty years with Intel, played a large number of senior leadership roles, including the former CEO Pat Gelsinger’s position last year, including the Chairman of the Temporary Joint Chief Executive Board. It will remain as strategic consultant in the coming months.
Reuters reported earlier this year that TAN had tried to flatten the company’s leadership team and that the most important chip groups reported directly to him and at the same time reduced the operations to facilitate operations.
Intel also said that Kevork Kechichian joined the Data Center Group Assistant General Manager and General Manager on Monday.
Kechichian, a veteran of a chip industry, came from the arm where he was the last Vice President of Engineering. He also worked at NXP Semiconductors and Qualcomm.
In addition to other changes, Intel announced that a new central engineering group to be ruled by Senior Vice President Srinivasan Iyengar. In the expanded role, Iyengar will establish a new special silicone business to serve a wide range of external customers. Naga Chandrasekaran, Vice President and Technology and Operation Officer of Intel Foundry, expanded its role in a way to include Foundry Services, and was appointed as the General Manager of Jim Johnson Intel’s Customer Computer Group. Announcements come for Intel at an uncertain time, US President Donald Trump said last month the government will receive the company’s 10% stake. Trump also asked Tan to resign through conflicts of interest.



