The Architect
Structured and legacy-driven; builds the systems and institutions that last.
Pat Gelsinger exemplifies The Architect, a leader who builds strategy from deep technical foundations and long structural bets. An engineer who joined Intel as a teenager and helped design the 80486 processor, he returned as CEO in 2021 to rebuild the company from the fabrication layer up. His IDM 2.
“On our graphics development, we thought we could scale the integrated software stack into the discrete performance levels. We were wrong, right? They weren't plumbed with the bandwidth, the performance, the latency that we needed.”
“The majority of my manufacturing is already in the US and Europe. We have a large facility in Arizona, large facility in Oregon today, a smaller one in New Mexico. And then we have Major Fab and Israel and a major fab in Ireland. We have some in Malaysia, Vietnam, and China today.”
“And air products, you know, it's just this exploding metropolis of technology. And it is the right thing for these communities. And they're such a pent-up enthusiasm for Ohio as the Silicon Heartland for exactly that reason, because it's not just what I'm going to build there and it's going to be big.”
“US or Europe, right? These things are foundational to the nature of the role that nations have across the globe. So we've stepped into that since I've been back in a pretty aggressive manner and it's the right thing. You know, it's like, yeah, this is good for Intel and I am not hesitant to say that, but it is the right thing.”
Bloomberg Tech: “Interview With Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger | Bloomberg Technology Special”
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