The past few years have been tough times for Intel, and after last week's news that intel's 7nm parts had been delayed (again), this week the company is announcing a shakeup to the executive team. The biggest news is that Intel's chief engineering officer, Murthy Renduchintala, is leaving the company.

The past few years have been terrible for Intel. Back in 2013, the company's original roadmap was to spend 2014-2015 on the 14nm node and then move to 10nm in 2016-2017, but an endless string of problems and setbacks with 10nm led to the company spending five years on the 14nm node. A shaky transition to 10nm only started in 2019, and the company still doesn't have 10nm desktop or server parts. With Intel spinning its wheels, AMD has returned to a second golden age with the Zen architecture and headline-grabbing Threadripper core counts. AMD is even starting to get attention from laptop OEMs.

Maybe it wasn't that bad for Microsoft to bet on AMD for their GPU-accelerated machine learning framework. AMD certainly has its glory times, but Intel has been a better bet for long term stability.

Also, what is up with so many Indians heading us tech companies nowadays? Is this meritocratic or a sign of nepotism among Indians?

I have no issue with Indians, if it really happens to just be the best. After all, theirs is a country of 1.3 billion. If you select the top percentiles, you can get the impression that they are all super geeks, despite average IQ of India being lower than the US. Maybe it's because the best of the best come to the US, but I'm not sure. You would think that there are enough European-descendant Americans who would be capable and interested in heading US companies.

I also want to understand the Indian caste system better because there have been allegations, from other Indians, that there are a select few who have been playing favors in India and they are somewhat replicating their caste system in the US.

How Indian IT Workers Discriminate Against Non-Indian Workers https://www.brightworkresearch.com/enterprisesoftwarepolicy/2019/01/31/how-indian-it-workers-discriminate-against-non-indian-workers/

I have not made up my mind about this, yet. It's just one of those salacious sort of stories you can gossip about so well on the Internet, perhaps.