Brian Krzanich resigns as Intel CEO

Brian Krzanich has resigned from his position as CEO of Intel after five years at the helm of the company, having held such a position in May 2013. Krzanich has been forced to leave his post after a sexual relationship came to light. with a co-worker, something totally prohibited by company rules.

Brian Krzanich steps down as Intel CEO

Intel has recently been informed that Brian Krzanich had had a relationship with an employee of the same company, something that is not allowed by Intel regulations. The board has decided that it was best for Brian Krzanich to step down as CEO of the company in a show that all members must respect the company's values, and adhere to its code of conduct.

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A few months ago the controversy broke when it was known that Brian Krzanich was selling a large part of his Intel shares, something that occurred just before the Meltdown and Specter vulnerabilities were known, the most serious in the history of modern processors that based on speculative execution.

Currently, Intel is in the most complicated position in the last 10 years, with an AMD that is putting great pressure, due to the great success of its Ryzen processors based on the Zen microarchitecture. AMD is already preparing to launch its processors to the market Second-generation Threadripper with up to 32 cores, Intel has nothing to answer for, so they improvised showing a 28-core processor overclocked at 5 GHz. We also did not leave aside their problems with the manufacturing process at 10 nm, which already takes two years late.

Hopefully the CEO change is what Intel needs to get back on track.

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