Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc. Class C and Intel Corporation (INTC.US) come together to create the "Avengers of the AI chip industry".

As part of the business revitalization plan led by CEO Chen Liwu, Intel Corporation (INTC.US) has recently appointed a group of new engineering executives from tech giants such as Cadence, Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc. Class C. On Wednesday (June 18) local time, Intel Corporation announced on its official website that Srinivasan Iyengar, Jean-Didier Allegrucci, and Shailendra Desai will join the company to "take on important engineering leadership roles". At the same time, the press release also announced that Greg Ernst, a sales executive with over 20 years of experience at Intel Corporation, has been appointed as Chief Revenue Officer. Intel Corporation stated that these appointments were made to strengthen customer relationships and become a more engineering-focused company. Since taking office in March this year, Chen Liwu has been working to rebuild Intel Corporation's engineering talent pool, emphasizing the need for the company to create products that better meet customer needs, and announcing layoffs and streamlining of the management structure. One of the biggest challenges facing Chen Liwu is reshaping Intel Corporation's artificial intelligence (AI) chip business. The company was once a dominant player in the chip industry, but was left far behind by competitors such as NVIDIA Corporation in the wave of explosive growth in AI computing. In addition, Intel Corporation also urgently needs to find more customers for its vast network of chip factories. The task of establishing contacts with potential customers will fall on Ernst, who currently leads Intel Corporation's Sales and Marketing Group (SMG) and has held various sales and product development roles. Iyengar will serve as Senior Vice President of the newly established "Customer Engineering Center of Excellence" at Intel Corporation. Previously, Iyengar worked at Cadence, a chip design software company and one of Chen Liwu's former employers where he served as CEO for over ten years. Allegrucci will be responsible for engineering work on AI system-on-chip (SoC) and lead the development of future AI products at Intel Corporation. He comes from the startup Rain AI, having previously worked at Apple Inc. for 17 years, overseeing the design and development of more than 30 chips at Apple Inc. Desai comes from Alphabet Inc. Class C, and founded the startup Provino Technologies which was acquired by Alphabet Inc. Class C in 2021. He then became the head of the silicon engineering department at Alphabet Inc. Class C, leading the chip engineering, architecture design, and platform solutions for multiple mobile SoCs at Alphabet Inc. Class C. After joining Intel Corporation, Desai will lead the development of AI graphics processing units (GPUs), the most direct challenge yet to NVIDIA Corporation by Intel Corporation. This article is reproduced from "Cai Lianshe", GMTEight Editor: Liu Jiayin.