An Interview with Pat Gelsinger

(morethanmoore.substack.com)

52 points | by zdw 2 days ago

6 comments

  • scrlk 1 hour ago
    Sadly nothing about why Pat was forced out of Intel. Panther Lake is quite a good CPU and 14A looks like it'll be a competitive process. IMO, it vindicates the decisions that Pat made a few years ago and wasn't able to see through to completion.

    "Designing microprocessors is like playing Russian roulette. You put a gun to your head, pull the trigger, and find out four years later if you blew your brains out." (Robert Palmer, former DEC CEO)

    • melling 1 hour ago
      Pat killed Intel’s share price. Should have paid more attention to the balance sheet. I thought he would eventually turn the company around but Intel was priced for bankruptcy.

      Stock price has tripled since last August. Hopefully, Intel is really back. They do need a couple of Fab customers.

      • m132 47 minutes ago
        Was it Pat or Brian? If I recall correctly, it was under Brian when Intel had one of its worst periods of stagnation, when the 10 nm process all the bets were on turned out to be a non-starter, and when Meltdown and Spectre erupted. It's easy to overlook this because Intel had fairly no competition around then, but that doesn't mean the company was in a good shape.

        I've always felt like Pat was a scapegoat who was chosen to clean up the mess when the whole place was already up in smoke and the smell was only starting to leak out. I liked his strategy, was disappointed to see him booted out.

  • voxadam 2 hours ago
    I'm surprised that his fascination with "Christian AI" and the end of the world didn't come up.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45740664

    • fooker 1 hour ago
      Speaking of that, Anthropic is getting priests to try and teach Claude ethics

        https://observer.com/2026/03/the-catholic-priest-who-helped-write-anthropics-ai-ethics-code/
      • voxadam 1 hour ago
        Who's going to teach the Catholic priests ethics?
        • fooker 1 hour ago
          Claude :)
          • voxadam 1 hour ago
            Circular ethics, how appropriate for an industry fueled by circular financing.
      • huijzer 1 hour ago
        What a joke. Anthropic could just train a few more times on the Bible.

        Matthew 22:36-40 (emphasis mine), "Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."

        Note the "as thyself" part. This part counters people who want to interpret "love" as "romantic love". Unfortunately, Catholic priests and many (fake?) Christians seem to not care about the "as thyself" part.

  • IanCutress 1 day ago
    Youtube version, with pushup contest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SauujHpNpXY
    • leosanchez 2 hours ago
      For anyone reading. Gelsinger won the contest. He took ~42 pushups.
  • wewewedxfgdf 2 hours ago
    I thought it was extremely strange that he posted so much religious stuff from official Intel accounts.
  • throwaway498213 2 hours ago
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  • Rahulghoti 1 hour ago
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