Former Intel CEO has a radical solution for the company: Fire the board and rehire Pat Gelsinger

A hot potato: Craig Barrett is firing shots at Intel's board over its proposal to break the company up into multiple smaller pieces and sell parts of the business to TSMC. The former Intel CEO called it the "dumbest idea around" that would squander the "accomplishments" made under Pat Gelsinger's leadership. Barrett, who ran Intel from 1998 to 2005, didn't mince words in his opinion piece published on Fortune, where he expressed a starkly different take. He says the only viable path forward for the company is to stay unified and double down on its latest 18A process node and imaging technologies like high NA EUV lithography. Perhaps even more radically, Barrett contends that Gelsinger should be brought back. That's because under the ousted CEO, Intel finally regained technical parity with TSMC at the 2nm node after years of stagnation, according to Barrett. "Pat Gelsinger did a great job at resuscitating the technology development team," Barrett wrote, highlighting Intel's lead in n ... Read full article.