Intel Appoints New Engineering Leaders to Boost AI Chip Development

Ticker BuzzThursday, Jun 19, 2025 3:17 am ET
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Intel has appointed a new engineering leadership team to support the company's transformation plan under the leadership of its CEO. The company announced that three senior executives, Srinivasan Iyengar, Jean-Didier Allegrucci, and Shailendra Desai, will join Intel to take on key engineering roles. Additionally, Greg Ernst, the current sales manager, has been promoted to the position of Chief Revenue Officer.

Since taking over as CEO in March, the current CEO has been focused on restoring Intel's talent advantage in the engineering field and emphasized the need for the company to develop products that better meet customer needs. The CEO has also announced plans for layoffs and streamlining the management structure.

One of the biggest challenges facing the CEO is the comprehensive reform of Intel's AI chips. Compared to the rapid growth of NVIDIA in the artificial intelligence computing market, Intel's related products have shown weakness and are on the periphery of this AI boom. As CEO, the current CEO also needs to find more customers for Intel's extensive wafer fabrication network.

Greg Ernst is currently responsible for Intel's sales and marketing departments and will be tasked with building closer relationships with customers in the future. He has been with Intel for over 20 years and has held various sales and product development roles.

Srinivasan Iyengar will serve as Senior Vice President, overseeing the newly established "Customer Engineering Excellence Center" and reporting directly to the CEO. Previously, he worked at Cadence, a company specializing in chip design software, where the current CEO served as CEO for over ten years.

Jean-Didier Allegrucci will oversee AI system-level chip (SoC) engineering, responsible for the future development of Intel's AI chips. Previously, he worked at the startup Rain AI, and before that, he spent 17 years at Apple, participating in the development of over 30 chips.

Shailendra Desai joins Intel from Google. After Google acquired his startup Provino Technologies in 2021, he became Google's silicon engineering manager. He will lead the development of AI graphics processors at Intel, a crucial step in Intel's direct challenge to NVIDIA.

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