Paul Otellini announced that it will be early retirement, Intel Board of Directors has declared a new CEO is selected from the outside. Slow strategic action in the field of mobile chips, Intel results decline in net profit in the first quarter of 2013 was $ 2.05 billion, compared to the same period fell 25%. The decline of the PC market, to allow Intel x86 monopoly advantage can help enhance the performance of the company, the traditional PC vendors moving into the mobile device market, Intel is also facing the pressure of transformation envisaged by the parties, if the replacement of the CEO of a non-Intel background will probably be a great opportunity.
Outside the well-known Intel will acquire Nvidia, appointed Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, will succeed Paul Otellini. In fact, Intel is a very traditional company, served five CEO In addition to the two founders, and the remaining three are for older employees the Intel work for a few decades, only five CEO Paul Otellini is a non-engineer. Each either the replacement of the head of almost all accidents are promoted Intel's number two man, does not require much innovation, continuation of the traditional understandable in the the Wintel era of Intel, and now in the mobile chip market challenges lead to a decline in performance on the occasion, Intel continues to entrust the task to an Intel cultivated 30 years as an engineer - Brian Krzanich.
Why COO promoted to CEO, reasons: First, personal computers and data middle / server is still the main source of revenue for Intel, the 2013Q1 Intel PC core business revenues of $ 8,000,000,000, Data Center revenues of $ 2.6 billion, both The company's sum revenue together accounted for 84%, the two are the Intel good at business field, choose veterans are very familiar with the external market and the company's affairs; Second, the hardware business is just to attempt, rather than strategic transformation, Intel asked the Ultrabook concept and vigorously promote, even the outgoing Intel to launch mobile phone, but this is just to attempt and Intel does not need an outsider to the company transformed into "ARM"; Third, the chip maker is yet Intel's core competitiveness Intel has the best process in the industry level, the technical background of the new CEO will be able to better play these advantages
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