Pat Gelsinger
CEO, VMware and Intel
An 80486 architect who came back to run the company
Rating
80Impact score
Domains
ProcessorsVirtualisationManufacturing
Scouting report
Joined Intel at eighteen, led the design of the 80486 and became the company’s first CTO, then ran VMware from 2012 through its Kubernetes pivot, then returned as Intel’s CEO in 2021 to attempt the hardest turnaround in the industry: rebuilding leading-edge manufacturing against TSMC. He left in 2024 with that unfinished.
Curator’s note
The engineer’s engineer handed the hardest job in semiconductors, twenty years late.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Pat Gelsinger by [Web Summit https://www.flickr.com/people/74711243@N06], licensed CC BY 2.5.
Sources
- 01Pat Gelsinger en.wikipedia.org
- 02Intel 80486 en.wikipedia.org