Karlston Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Intel’s hardware chief is leaving the company Dr. Venkata (Murthy) Renduchintala’s last day will be August 3rd Image: Intel The executive in charge of almost all of Intel’s hardware, chief engineering officer Dr. Venkata (Murthy) Renduchintala, is leaving the company on August 3rd, Intel announced on Monday. His departure comes on the heels of Intel’s announcement that its next-gen 7nm chips are delayed until at least 2022, and after years of delays for the company’s 10nm processors as well, which bottlenecked advancements for much of the laptop industry. Intel did not cite a specific reason for Renduchintala’s departure. Intel poached Renduchintala from Qualcomm in February 2016, and put him in charge of everything from the design to engineering to manufacturing of Intel’s chips — and other hardware bets — under one group, the Technology, Systems Architecture and Client Group. That division will now be split up into five different teams, divvying up responsibilities in technology development, manufacturing, design engineering, architecture, and supply chain management, and the leaders of each of those groups will report directly to Intel CEO Bob Swan. On Thursday, Swan spent part of the company’s earnings call discussing the possibility of Intel abandoning the practice of manufacturing its own chips, something it had long done and touted as a strength even after competitors like AMD outsourced actual chip production. Intel is rumored to be in talks with TSMC, where it might have to compete with Apple, Qualcomm, AMD and Nvidia for the Taiwanese semiconductor giant’s attentions, among other customers. Intel’s hardware chief is leaving the company Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aum Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group after delays Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d5aqoep Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Bit too late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkc21 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 looks like all the bad bussiness practices are catching up to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mp68terr Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Where did he get his Dr. title? Could not find the info, always about his jobs, not graduations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shamu726 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 39 minutes ago, mp68terr said: Where did he get his Dr. title? Could not find the info, always about his jobs, not graduations. https://newsroom.intel.com/biography/dr-murthy-renduchintala/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mp68terr Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 From the link above, and for the others who are wondering: "PhD in digital communications". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted July 29, 2020 Author Share Posted July 29, 2020 Heads roll at Intel after 7nm delay Murthy Renduchintala is out, and the struggling Technology group gets new leadership. Enlarge / Dr. Venkata (Murthy) Renduchintala speaks at Intel's 2017 Technology and Manufacturing Day. Intel Corporation The past few years have been tough times for Intel, and after last week's news that intel's 7nm parts had been delayed (again), this week the company is announcing a shakeup to the executive team. The biggest news is that Intel's chief engineering officer, Murthy Renduchintala, is leaving the company. Renduchintala joined Intel in 2016, when the company lured him away from Qualcomm with a $8.1 million signing bonus and total compensation package worth up to $25 million. He has been Intel's chief engineering officer for just over three years now and was described as "the company's second most powerful executive" behind then-CEO Brian Krzanich. Renduchintala ran the wide-ranging "Technology, Systems Architecture and Client Group (TSCG)" group. In Intel lingo, "Technology" with a capital T specifically includes the chip-manufacturing division that has struggled so much. The group came under Renduchintala's watch in 2018, and since 2018, 7nm has been continually described as "on track." With Renduchintala gone, TSCG will be split into five parts and given to other Intel executives. Intel hopes the change will "accelerate product leadership and improve focus and accountability in process technology execution." The Technology Development group will now live under 24-year Intel veteran Ann Kelleher. Intel's press release says Kelleher's goals include "accelerating the ramp of Intel's 10nm process" and that she will "lead Intel technology development focusing on 7nm and 5nm processes." Kelleher got her start at Intel Ireland in 1996 as a Process Engineer and worked her way up the fab-management ladder. The past few years have been terrible for Intel. Back in 2013, the company's original roadmap was to spend 2014-2015 on the 14nm node and then move to 10nm in 2016-2017, but an endless string of problems and setbacks with 10nm led to the company spending five years on the 14nm node. A shaky transition to 10nm only started in 2019, and the company still doesn't have 10nm desktop or server parts. With Intel spinning its wheels, AMD has returned to a second golden age with the Zen architecture and headline-grabbing Threadripper core counts. AMD is even starting to get attention from laptop OEMs. Intel completely missed out on the smartphone revolution, too, having been unable to come up with an answer for the rise of the ultra-low-power ARM SoC. After its smartphone insurgency, ARM chips quickly moved on Intel's territory by spreading to tablets and laptops. Intel's latest black eye is being completely dumped by Apple, which, after building its own ARM design house for the iPhone and iPad, has announced plans to upscale its ARM chips to Mac laptops and desktops. Murthy Renduchintala will leave Intel on August 3, 2020. Heads roll at Intel after 7nm delay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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