By Dylan Martin, Wade Tyler Millward
November 10, 2025, 5:25 PM EST
Intel CEO made Katti the company’s chief technology and artificial intelligence officer in April.
Sachin Katti, Intel’s chief technology and artificial intelligence officer, is leaving the chipmaker for ChatGPT creator OpenAI.
Katti will work on building out OpenAI’s compute infrastructure for artificial general intelligence, a theoretical form of AI akin to human intelligence, according to a post the executive published on the X social media network.
“Very grateful for the tremendous opportunity and experience at Intel over the last 4 years leading networking, edge computing and AI,” Katti said in his post.
An Intel spokesperson confirmed Katti’s departure in a statement to CRN and said that Lip-Bu Tan, the chipmaker’s CEO, will take over leadership of the AI and Advanced Technologies Groups that was led by Katti.
“AI remains one of Intel’s highest strategic priorities, and we are focused on executing our technology and product roadmap across emerging AI workloads,” the representative said.
“We thank Sachin for his contributions and wish him all the best,” the spokesperson said at the beginning of the statement.
CRN has reached out to San Francisco-based OpenAI for comment.
OpenAI President and co-founder Greg Brockman posted on X that he is “incredibly excited to work with him on designing and building our compute infrastructure, which will power our AGI research and scale its applications to benefit everyone.”
Tan appointed Katti to the role in April, adding to Katti’s responsibilities as leader of the Network and Edge Group, which he has done since early 2023, a little more than a year after he joined Intel.
When Katti was appointed chief technology and AI officer, Tan said in a memo at the time that the role put the executive in charge of Intel’s “overall AI strategy and AI product road map as well as Intel Labs and our relationships with the startup and developer ecosystems."
Katti's departure is coming after Intel recently retooled its data center AI strategy under Tan after the semiconductor giant
failed to meet the modest, $500 million revenue expectation it set for its Gaudi chips last year.
Last month at the 2025 OCP Global Summit, the company revealed a 160-GB, energy-efficient data center GPU that is part of a new annual GPU release cadence to deliver on its new strategy of providing open systems and software architecture for AI systems.
Katti is an adjunct professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University, where he has worked on several research projects related to technology, including one on “delivering visibility and operational automation for [machine learning] at the edge.”
He was previously co-founder and CEO of Kumu Networks, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company that sought to revolutionize the way wireless systems are built, according to his LinkedIn account.
Other executives to announce their departure from Intel in recent months include former Global Channel Chief John Kalvin, Vice President of Data Center AI Product Management Saurabh Kulkarni and 25-year company veteran Rob Bruckner, whom Intel’s CEO appointed to lead the Platform Engineering Group.
Intel Chief Technology Officer Sachin Katti is headed to OpenAI.
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