Intel's former CEO tried to buy Nvidia almost 2 decades ago

[Joseph Byrne]

Wasn't one of the sticking points that Jensen wanted to be CEO of the combined company (i.e., CEO of Intel)?

That's the story I heard a the time.

I'm wondering why this is in the news now. (A) who cares what didn't happen? (Something didn't happen! News at 11!) (B) among those who care, who cares what didn't happen 20 years ago? (C) who was unaware of this?

 

[mtuyen]

Let us not overstate things. The ground for AMD's recovery was laid down before she became CEO.
For example she became CEO in 2014, while Jim Keller had returned to AMD in 2012.

AMD's Zen core was in development before she became the CEO. The trajectory was defined by the previous leadership.

AMD also managed to survive their dry spell thanks to deals like the Playstation 4 and Xbox One design wins. Which brought some much needed cashflow. The Playstation 4 and Xbox One started being sold in 2013.

Both designs used the Jaguar core. Which was also designed before she became CEO. It was derived from Bobcat.

All of this happened when Mark Papermaster was CTO. It was he who hired Jim Keller back. But you can credit AMD's recovery more to their engineering teams than to the management in my opinion.

Lisa Su is a fine CEO, but all of this kind of landed on her lap.

Yup, a lot of the recovery happened during Rory Read tenure at AMD. I always believed he doesn't deserve enough credit for the revival of AMD>