Stefan Mileschin

Exclusive: It is going to be the Game of Thrones

After we heard that Brian Krzanich is out, we started to ask people close to the matter who might be the next in line for the Iron Throne. We got a few internal names or names close to the company, as well as some ex-Intel executives who made the list.

The order of people will not have to do with their importance and how likelyhe or she is to become the next CEO. For what it is worth, Intel can hire someone completely out of the usual suspects and you never know if someone is going to come in riding on a couple of Snapdragons.

Stacy Smith or Rene James
Stacy J. Smith and Rene James both ex-Intel personnel might have good chances. Stacy Smith retired at the end of January after 30 years at Intel. His last job was Group President of Manufacturing, Operations and Sales at Intel and we heard that he is a business-oriented executive who understands the business and technology.

Rene James was an Intel President until leaving in 2015. In February this year she booted the startup called Ampere with some 300 employee that is working on an ARM data center solution. They have licensed some of its technology to Qualcomm for its data center effort. Rene is a likely candidate for Intel’s next CEO but the Carlyle Group, which gave Ampere serious funding, would not like to see her going, so we would call this one unlikely.

Both Smith and James were runners up for the CEO job and got interviewed alongside with Krzanich.

https://fudzilla.com/news/46607-intel-next-ceo-scoop