Shareholders urged to press CTRL-Z on loyal Gelsinger's 'retirement' Comment Former Intel CEO Craig Barrett has a simple solution to the x86 giant's woes.… Instead of splitting the Xeon maker's manufacturing and design businesses in two,

Amid continued debate and discussion around Intel's future after a dismal 2024, ex Intel CEO Craig Barrett has added his voice to the fray. In an opinion piece for Fortune, the former head honcho argues that suggestions from former board members to split Intel's chip design and foundry business would result in a loss in momentum for the company,

In a blistering critique, former Intel CEO and Chairman Craig Barrett has strongly opposed breaking the company into separate design and foundry units, arguing that Intel’s recent technological resurgence positions it to challenge TSMC’s dominance in the semiconductor industry without corporate dismantling.

Former Intel CEO Craig Barrett is calling for the entire Intel board to be dismissed. Breaking it up would not help Intel.

Barrett, who ran Intel from 1998 to 2005, didn't mince words in his opinion piece published on Fortune, where he expressed a starkly different take. He

Former Intel CEO Craig Barrett says Intel shouldn't split its business into two, to battle TSMC it should 'fire the Intel board and rehire Pat Gelsinger'.

Former Intel CEO Craig Barrett has criticized proposals to split the company, blaming the board for its decline and arguing that firing them and reinstating Pat Gelsinger would be a smarter move as Intel fights to regain its competitive edge against TSMC and Broadcom amid financial struggles and production delays.

In an op-ed published in Fortune, former Intel CEO Craig Barret argues that Intel's future lies not in breaking the company into separate design and manufacturing units, but in restoring strong, experienced leadership at its helm.