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The CEO of a semiconductor company needs to have an engineering background, IMO. The tech is too complex and too important to the business to have a CEO who doe
by satya71 6y ago
The CEO of a semiconductor company needs to have an engineering background, IMO. The tech is too complex and too important to the business to have a CEO who doesn't understand the nuances. Wish Pat all the success at Intel. We need Intel to do better.
- iamricks 6y agoI agree, that is why Lisa Su runs AMD so well
- simonebrunozzi 6y agoFrom [0]: Gelsinger earned a master's degree from Stanford University in 1985, his bachelor's degree from Santa Clara University in 1983 (magna cum laude), and an associate degree from Lincoln Technical Institute in 1979, all in electrical engineering. I'd call it an engineering background. [0]: https://www.vmware.com/company/leadership/pat-gelsinger.html https://www.vmware.com/company/leadership/pat-gelsinger.html
- KptMarchewa 6y agoI've understood it as a critique of a previous CEO, not the new one.
- AlphaSite 6y agoWasn’t he Andy Groves Protege?
- rossdavidh 6y agoDisclosure: I worked at AMD for about a decade, although that's a while back now. It is traditional in semiconductor companies (or was, anyway) to have a triumvirate: 1) the "outside" guy (sales, know the customer) 2) the "inside" guy (operations, now the employees) 3) the "tech" guy Any of these three can run the company, but whichever one it is, they need to have the other two near at hand, and they need to listen closely to them. The problem comes when, as at Intel and perhaps also at Boeing, you have options (1) or (2) in charge, and they're not listening to the person who is position (3) in the triumvirate, or they don't have a triumvirate at all. If the person in position (3) is in charge (as at AMD currently), they will still need to have experts in (1) and (2), and they will need to listen to them.