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Great deep dive “This video features expert interviews from both independent and first-party Intel engineers, technicians, and analysts. If you've ever wanted to see how a CPU is made physically (with supporting 3D animations for education), this will help you get started.”

serendipity: the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for Amid the congratulatory reactions and comments to my work anniversary I was weighing a serendipitous opportunity to conclude my career at Intel Corporation. It was a decision that was much more difficult than I imagined and one that found me on the evening of September 30th standing in the staircase looking out at a sun-drenched parking lot not exactly able to walk down the stairs and out the door for the final time. Tim Nguyen came along and we chatted and I knew if I walked and talked my way out the door, I’d make it. Success! My time at Intel was really more accurately measured as six distinct roles lasting five years or longer. Recently I saw a post that referenced my second favorite Steve Jobs quote which talks about the importance of being in a role for ‘a while’. “Without owning something over an extended period of time–like a few years–where one has a chance to take responsibility for one’s recommendations, where one has to see one’s recommendations through all action stages and accumulate scar tissue for the mistakes, and pick oneself up off the ground and dust oneself off, one learns a fraction of what one can.” It’s true the experience is important, but I found that the people I worked with was more indicative of how much I liked the work I was doing. Across those six roles I worked with amazing people that motivated, trusted and held me accountable. Interestingly, my final role in the Chromebook team provided me the opportunity to be part of the largest team I was ever a part of at Intel. I love Chromebooks and believe that 70% of laptop users would be better served on a Chromebook (trust me, beginning in 2018 I used various Chromebooks at work on a daily basis). It doesn’t seem like seven years ago that folks interviewed me and offered me the opportunity to be part of team that works amazingly with Google to deliver great experiences on Intel silicon. I can’t thank all of them enough, although I tried. I also realized I wanted to recognize the teams from before so I’ve taken the picture, I took the last day I was in the building with the team and ‘attempted’ to make a closing credit to express my gratitude.

AI is solving crunchy business problems today. Loving this optimism of creating a solvable future with advances in AI. Andy Grove reference in the interview reminded me of a quote “You can be the subject of a strategic inflection point but you can also be the cause of one” #AI #aiadvances #datastrategy

Pat's boldness is evident in his accomplishment of achieving a goal of five nodes within four years. We are eagerly anticipating the unveiling of the Intel Foundry roadmap featuring the 14A process... Great conversation with Sam-would like to see more details on the collaboration-does it entail optimizing Intel hardware solutions, including CPUs, GPUs, and specialized AI accelerators, to enhance support for OpenAI's deep learning algorithms and frameworks?

Great quick thoughts from Pat Gelsinger and Sam Altman on the need for big spending as well as the opportunities and risks on the future of AI at our first systems foundry event. From my perspective, they are spot on and I can't wait to see what comes next! #iamintel #ItStartsWithIntel

What an honor to moderate yesterday’s allyship fireside chat at #ITC2024 with guest speaker Ruth Cotter, SVP of AMD.    Her advice on allyship ranged from what you as an individual could do as well as what strategies companies in the semiconductor industry could implement.   Some key takeaways:   ▪️ Let people know what you need, what you would like to do and where you’d like to go.   ▪️ Create relationships so that you can interpret the signals people are sending, and you can support them as needed.   ▪️ When speaking, 80% of the time you should be actively listening.     ▪️ Find a MAC / Be a MAC - Mentor, Advocate and Coach - we all need different support at different points in time of our careers.   ▪️ Creating a safe space and feeling of inclusion helps employees perform better and as a byproduct the company. Thank you, Ruth, for your openness and insights!     #togetherweadvance AMD Teradyne

Love retired but not done spirit Jay! Still remember you from your classes at the #OSU on #parallelcomputing #computerarchitecture - Still putting to good use all I learnt from you in my #research in my #impactlabasu - greatly indebeted. Many thanks! Loren Schwiebert and I often talk about fun we had working with you. BTW we worked on generalized #barriersynchronisation. :) Great that didn't turned out to be a #barrier but instead a launcher for my research career - now focused on acceleration of #AI on #fpga for #AIsafety #Operationalsafety etc. All the best! #intel #intelAI #asuengineering

Intel is sick and these malinvestments have no markets for products produced. We need to replace CEO and the management team. The company missed one after another great opportunities. The management team simply did not have a clue of what was coming and where to produce its products. Their Arizona semi like others is a pure mess. For a company or an economy, there are only two things that matter: business is moving uphill or downhill, which is my new way to see business cycles, not expansion and recession. I only hold 100 shares of the company. #intel

How to save intel? Production-Shenzhen China, investment 15 Billions (issuing RMB denominated debts) and full production of chips in 1.5 years. Why? See the list of NVDA customers, mainly in the US. The whole AI market in China has not been fully served. Intel needs to put its advance tech closer and closer to its customers. Politics is one thing while business is another. If Intel does not want to do, someone else will do the business anyway. Design and marketing: USA No other ways to turn the company around. Keep in mind the nature of Adam Smith's idea in economics. Division of labor creates wealth. Intel was not so sensitive to information and change in economic structure so it failed.

Interesting stats from JUST Capital: Compared to their Russell 1000 peers, JUST 100 companies, those leading the 2024 Rankings of America’s Most JUST Companies, on average: - Pay 11.8 percentage points more of their workers a family-sustaining living wage (78.3%). - Provide 7.2 more hours of career development training per employee. - Emitted 42% less metric tons of CO2 per revenue dollar. - Used 29.6 percentage points more renewable energy as a proportion of their total energy use. - Are 3.8 times more likely to disclose the amount spent on diverse suppliers. - Have a 4% higher profit margin, 2.9% higher return on equity, and 1.2% higher dividend yield. Congrats to all of the #JUST100 companies. #changetheworld #corporateresponsibility #esg #sustainablebusiness