Intel was also late with its Intel Arc graphics cards to its competition from AMD and Nvidia. In fact, the company has lowered the price of its cards, in addition to improving its drivers and performance after launch. This line of graphics cards will continue to evolve in the future, although now without Koduri as the person in charge.
As to Intel Foundry Services (IFS), will have a new manager from next April: Stuart Panna veteran of the company, who will replace Randir Thakur, President of IFS until last November, who will also leave the company at the end of March. Thakur is one of the most responsible for the start-up of IFS manufacturing operations between 2021 and 2022.
His successor, Pann, does not have experience in the component manufacturing industry, but does have experience in the areas of supply chain management, planning, and strategic resource allocation. Apparently Intel believes these are the skills needed to jumpstart the division, which it aims to make into one of the leading third-party chip makers by 2030.
Until his appointment, he was Intel’s Head of Transformation, as well as the head of Intel’s Corporate Planning Group, positions he held in 2021, when he returned to the company after leaving it in 2014. Prior to this stage, Pann spent 33 years at Intel: from 1981 to 2014.
In this first stage, he held various positions of responsibility in sales management, before becoming the director of pricing and operations of the division dedicated to microprocessors at Intel, a position he reached in 1999. He was later appointed Vice President and head of the Group of business management at Intel. Prior to beginning her second stint with the company, Pann held the positions of Head of Supply Chain and Information at HP-
As Pat Gelsinger has pointed out, “With extensive experience in capital and capacity strategies, as well as supply chain, sales and operations planning in internal and external manufacturing, Stuart is an ideal leader to accelerate momentum and drive long-term growth. for IFS«.
Meanwhile, Pann has acknowledged that “Intel Foundry Services is a critical pillar of our IDM 2.0 strategy, and it’s been exciting to see it grow from an idea to a running business, with a world-class IP portfolio, and notable customers in less than two years. I am committed to championing the interests of our factory customers and helping them take advantage of Intel’s state-of-the-art process technology, as well as our entire open systems manufacturing offering, so they can succeed in a world that increasingly demands more computing«.
