“News in the last 24 hours, based on public statements, states that former Intel Senior Fellow Glenn Hinton, who lists being the lead architect of Intel’s Nehalem CPU core in his list of achievements, is coming out of retirement to re-join the company.”
Gelsinger hasn’t even started, and the lead architect of Nehalem is already coming out of retirement. Hinton says the re-hiring is what settled his decision. Talent follows leadership it respects. Intel’s previous boss was a CFO, and it showed.