Intel's next chief executive officer will have manufacturing expertise as well as experience in the product side of the business, interim co-CEO David Zinsner said on Wednesday. Reuters reported on Tuesday that Intel has started evaluating a handful of outsiders including former board member Lip-Bu Tan to take the reins of the struggling chipmaker,

Interim Intel co-CEO David Zinsner said on Wednesday that the chipmaker’s “core strategy remains intact” and offered further clarification on what its board is seeking.

CFO David Zinsner will step in as interim co-CEO as Intel races to regain lost ground in the GenAI race after reporting a record loss of $16.6 billion for its most recent quarter.

Gelsinger, CEO since 2021, had a 40-plus-year career at Intel. He was betting the company on 18A, a new chipmaking process hoping it would be a viable alternative to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., (TSMC) the world’s leading contract manufacturer of chips, Fortune ’s Jeremy Kahn recently reported.

Zinsner is executive vice president and chief financial officer at Intel. Holthaus was appointed to the newly created position of CEO of Intel Products, which includes the client

Intel Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger retired abruptly, ending a nearly four-year run that saw the chip maker fall behind rivals in building semiconductors to power the artificial-intelligence boom. The company on Monday said it named Chief Financial Officer David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus,

Computer chip maker Intel announced the retirement of chief executive Pat Gelsinger on Monday, raising new questions about the company’s future even as the United States is set to give it billions of dollars to build up the country’s ability to manufacture chips at home.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired, the struggling chipmaker said Monday in a surprise announcement. Two company executives, David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus, will act as interim co-CEOs while the company searches for a replacement for Gelsinger,