Intel’s chief executive of products departs among other leadership changes | TechCrunch

Semiconductor giant Intel has been growing its senior leadership since Lip-bu Tan took office in March.

Intel announced on Monday that Michelle Johnston Holthaus will leave the company in more than three decades. Johnston Holthhaus, who is recently CEO of Intel Products, will continue to be a strategic consultant.

According to Intel, the company also announced the establishment of a central engineering group that will establish a new custom silicon business for external customers. The group will be led by Srinivasan “Srini” Iyengar, who joined Intel from Cadence Design Systems in July.

Intel also said former ARM’s Kevok Kechichian will join the company’s head of data center group. Jim Johnson has been appointed Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel Client Computing Group. Naga Chandrasekaran, the principal technology and operations officer at Intel Foundry, is also playing an expanded role, the company’s business unit builds custom chips for external customers.

“With Srini’s leading central engineering leading, we are dealing with customers more closely,” Tan said. Company News Release. “We focus on delivering world-class products with lasers and empowering our engineering teams to move faster and execute with excellence. Kework, Jim and Srini are outstanding leaders and their deep technical acumen and their industry relationships will play a major role as we continue to build new Intel.”

The news came weeks after the U.S. government announcement Plans to convert existing government grants into 10% of Intel’s shares. this The structure of the transaction is to punish Intel If the foundry of the company has 50% ownership.

These are not the only leadership changes for Intel this year.

Tan takes over as CEO March is a notable person. In July, the company announced Four newcomers in sales and engineering roles Including Greg Ernst as Intel’s chief revenue officer.

Intel declined to comment.