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I think Pat enforced his dismissive optimism on the entire company which made a tough job even tougher. A number of Intel executives, new and old, have taken indirect shots at Pat when he got pushed out even before Tan came on board.

I still see a lot of people worship Gelsinger just because he was supposedly the engineer CEO messiah that Intel needed. But he had a flawed strategy made worse by naive, arrogant execution.