Intel has announced that its hardware Chief Dr. Venkata (Murthy) Renduchintala is leaving the company. His last day will be August 3rd, Monday. This is another huge blow for Intel and it comes in the days following Intel’s plans to delay its 7nm chips to 2022 at the earliest.
Dr. Venkata was the executive in charge of almost all of Intel’s hardware, and his departure does not bode well for Intel, who seems to be struggling already in the processors market against AMD. Intel has been having issues with its die shrink technology dating back to 2015 when it had problems in reaching the 10nm architecture. That delay bottlenecked advancements for much of the laptop industry.
Intel hired Dr. Venkata (Murthy) Renduchintala back in 2016 from Qualcomm to help in resolving such issues. But unfortunately, Intel and Dr. Venkata still faced issues despite working very hard under one group, the Technology, Systems Architecture, and Client Group. It is now rumored that the group will now be divided into five different teams.
Each team will be responsible for a different stage in technology development, manufacturing, design engineering, architecture, and supply chain management and the leaders of each group will report directly to Intel CEO Bob Swan.
AMD has been stomping all over Intel in more ways than one over the last few years, so this announcement is starting to show us something much bigger is happening at Intel. AMD recently announced its Q2 earnings which showed high profits. They also laid out a roadmap for the future which included the Ryzen 4000 series CPUs and Big Navi GPUs that are on track for scheduled releases later on this year.
The Intel ship seems to be sinking slowly. We have to wait and see what steps they take to compete with AMD.
