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Intel CEO Brian Krzanich Resigns

SiDeards73 said:
This screams smokescreen, Intel cant bare to lose face, especially right now given AMD are giving them the unlubed loving from behind... It seems to me BK wasnt going anywhere soon, they'd had enough, i bet they had this story in their backpocket for quite a while. You cant tell me no one in the company knew this was happening, he's the CEO, this stuff happens all the time and a blind eye is taken, im guessing a meeting of the other board members who wanted him gone, given AMD's resurgence, and "Nows the time to play our trump card" and out he goes.

It makes no difference to Intel really as i bet BK has / had very little actual overall say in where the company was headed, a lot of the high end decisions are always board decisions with not a singular voice being able to make that decision.

It is pretty hilarious though, and Intel will save some face with this, although it seems bad on the outside, in todays modern world they can vilify him and still come out smelling of slightly soiled roses, they can then pin the blame on him for all their rubbish over the past years, convenient scapegoat material right there. Next CEO has a ready made excuse waiting for him when they come in..

Like i say it will be nothing but win win for Intel on this, its actually a decent move too, im not surprised they ousted him, they are obviously worried of AMD's momentum.
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I agree, this seems likely. After all, investor sites have been calling for his head for a while now.
 
pete910 said:
That has to be the worse cover story for kicking a CEO out ever!
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Right, my money says their security problems and the 5Ghz 28 core fiasco did it.

Intel in the last year or so have been a laughing stock, the CEO had to go.
 
You all think this is a cover up?

Probably is just a randy CEO who got caught doing his secretary, or one of the assistants.
 
bru said:
You all think this is a cover up?

Probably is just a randy CEO who got caught doing his secretary, or one of the assistants.
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I don't for a second believe they would allow a successful CEO to resign over a fling with a female colleague, a board of directors does not take risks like that over something so trivial.

Since Ryzen and Spectre Intel have bubbled their way from one calamity to another, its not been a good year for them and its my view that the BOD didn't think the current CEO had a firm handle on things.
 
humbug said:
I don't for a second believe they would allow a successful CEO to resign over a fling with a female colleague, a board of directors does not take risks like that over something so trivial.

Since Ryzen and Spectre Intel have bubbled their way from one calamity to another, its not been a good year for them and its my view that the BOD didn't think the current CEO had a firm handle on things.
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This happens everywhere.

As long as the company is happy with you, you get away with all kinds of bad behaviour.

The moment the company wants you gone every single misdemeanour will be dug up and your work will be double checked until they find something to get rid of you with.
 
But the decisions aren't made by a single person. The entire board of directors should be dismissed to go together wherever they wanna.
Ryzen and the bugs aren't the only problems, but also the 10nm process woes.
 
Hotwired said:
This happens everywhere.

As long as the company is happy with you, you get away with all kinds of bad behaviour.

The moment the company wants you gone every single misdemeanour will be dug up and your work will be double checked until they find something to get rid of you with.
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Agreed, and i think that is what happened. its the excuse, its not the reason :)
 
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