Intel chief engineer leaves company

Francois Piednoel has been a key man at Intel for many years, this engineer came to the company in 1997 and has since been the father of some of the company's most successful architectures such as Katmai, Conroe, Penryn and Nehalem. He has also been heavily involved in the latest designs such as Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, and Kaby Lake.

Intel loses its star engineer the last 20 years

So it can be said that Francois Piednoel has been the key piece of Intel's success for the last 20 years, a marriage that finally comes to an end with the engineer's desire to seek new adventures. Piednoel has confirmed that he is leaving Intel to work in the field of artificial intelligence, it has not been mentioned which company will be his destination.

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Many think that their destination could be AMD, the company directly competing with the CPU giant and that it would greatly benefit from the experience and talent of the man who has kept Intel at the top for many years. If we think about artificial intelligence, Nvidia is the undisputed leader in the sector, so finally its destination could be the graphics giant.

We will be attentive to any news about the final destination of Francois Piednoel. We will see how this loss affects Intel, such a large company should not have too many problems due to the departure of a man. Recall that Jim Keller also left AMD after finishing his job on the successful Zen architecture that has brought him back to being competitive in the high-performance CPU market.

Source: overclock3d