Patrick Paul Gelsinger
Patrick Paul Gelsinger is an American business executive and engineer who served as CEO of Intel from February 2021 to December 2024. He first joined Intel in 1979 at age 18, eventually becoming the company's first chief technology officer and the lead architect of the i486 microprocessor. After departing for leadership roles at EMC and VMware, he returned to Intel to lead a turnaround focused on revitalizing domestic semiconductor manufacturing. As of March 2025, he serves as executive chair and head of technology at Gloo and as a general partner at the venture capital firm Playground Global.
“I view one of the things that went off the rail was when it started to be run by business people as opposed to technical — the bean counters, the finance people. When I became CEO in 2021, that was the first technical leader in essentially 15 years.”
Source→“Steve said, 'I've been working on that — the last four releases.' He had been preparing the core technologies inside of Apple for something that might happen in the future.”
Source→“When I came back to Intel in 2021, TSMC was producing 5x the wafers of Intel. Not 10% more — 5x. And all of a sudden that model of foundry became the model of the semiconductor industry.”
Source→“Nobody's going to build and buy GPUs and build data centers if they don't have energy. So essentially you have an upper bound on how aggressive and how hyped and bubbled we get.”
Source→“You do have these incredible companies — Cerebras, Groq, etc. — making inference.”
Source→“You do have these incredible companies — Cerebras, Groq, etc. — making inference.”
Source→“Airwallex — one AI-native platform for global accounts, cards and payments — is designed to make the entire world feel like a local market.”
Source→“Andy Grove, Gordon Moore, Bob Noyce — co-inventor. These were deeply technical leaders. They were the people I adored.”
Source→“Andy Grove, Gordon Moore, Bob Noyce — co-inventor. These were deeply technical leaders.”
Source→“Andy Grove, Gordon Moore, Bob Noyce — co-inventor. These were deeply technical leaders.”
Source→“When they started to build a real software stack — this CUDA thing — it just kept getting a little bit better and a little bit better... all of a sudden the crazy Japanese HPC guys said, hey, we could take those graphics cards and start using them in HPC.”
Source→“Even if they're not founders — Satya is not a founder, Sundar is not a founder — but they're deeply technical individuals.”
Source→“Satya is not a founder, Sundar is not a founder, but they're deeply technical individuals.”
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