Former Intel executive Pat Gelsinger was once regarded as Glov's successor. After stepping down last year, he joined the US investment company. He will make good use of his technical expertise and people in Japan to help tech companies such as Rapidus grow.
On June 24, a "frustrated prince" appeared in Tokyo, Japan. He is Pat Gelsinger, the former executive of Intel, who is a new member of the US-based regular partner who invested in Playground. Financial News pointed out that despite the fact that the founder has not been silent in Japan, the venue is still full of reporters, and they are all coming for Pat Gelsinger.
"I was an engineer at Intel when I was young, and my first business trip was Japan; now after 43 years, Japan is like the second home to me." Pat Gelsinger used this sentence as a opening statement, indicating that he had a special emotion for Japan.
Pat Gelsinger returned to office in February 2021 and became Intel's executive director. At that time, Intel's business performance and share price continued to be maligned, and the position of industry leader was replaced by NVIDIA and NTU. Many people believe that only Pat Gelsinger can rebuild this unsuccessful luxury business because he is "the prince who was taught imperialism." Andy Grove, the deceased president of Intel Legend, once cultivated Pat Gelsinger by hand and regarded him as his successor.
However, the old Dong family who was trusted to Pat Gelsinger was in a more serious situation than expected. In the development of AI chip products, Intel was supercared by NVIDIA; in terms of manufacturing technology, it has been far behind the stage power supply. Pat Gelsinger believes that maintaining the IDM (vertical integrated manufacturing) model is the source of Intel's competitiveness, so it proposed a transformation strategy of "IDM2.0", which includes expanding the crystalline foundry business, thereby enhancing manufacturing power.
Can't save Intel. It's hard to hide the feeling of loss"Financial Information" disclosed that during his four years in office, the total investment in equipment reached US$95 billion, 1.6 times that of the previous four years, but the gap with Taiwan's technology strength and capacity has not narrowed, but has led to a sharp decline in revenue. Intel's market value reached $277.9 billion in April 2021 shortly after Pat Gelsinger returned, but when he left office, it had shrunk to only $84 billion.
At the Tokyo reporters' meeting, Pat Gelsinger evaluates Taiwan Power as "a very powerful enterprise that it is difficult to catch up with Taiwan Power." When the writer further asked, "Why can't you win over Telco when you have been in charge of Intel's long-term operation?" He replied, "I once said that technically rebuilding Intel is a timber task, which takes more than 5 years. I still think that it is very important for Intel to overcome this challenge. It is just that I have to leave before I complete this task. "From this conversation, it is difficult to see that he was dismissed from the dismissal of the Old Dong family before he could recover.
Pat Gelsinger's past precious experience will be discovered outside of Intel. Yan Zhi's Playground is an investment enterprise specializing in investing in new technology fields such as next-generation computing, AI, and robots. For example, Snowcap Compute, one of the company's investment partners, is a super-guided technology company dedicated to improving the computing efficiency of quantum computers. Pat Gelsinger himself, who decided to invest in this investment, is also the director of the company and intends to lead the company to grow.
Pat Gelsinger also plans to bring Japan's power into this new job. He said: "Many companies challenging new computing technology must establish partnerships with Japan, because Japan has a long history in the computer and semiconductor fields, and has a representative position in the global industry ecosystem in many fields such as materials and chemistry. As long as Japan and the United States reach a common understanding, it is equivalent to determining the industry ecosystem around the world."
Create a new ecological system with deep expectations from the outside worldThe Financial News also found that the night before the reporter's meeting, Pat Gelsinger held a dinner with Playground, and invited Japanese government officials and high-level enterprises to communicate through familiar Japanese journalists. Since Intel has been in close contact with Japanese materials and chemistry manufacturers for a long time, even if Pat Gelsinger left Intel, many companies should be willing to support this "regular prince".
Japan is also interested in refining the experience of Pat Gelsinger. Rapidus, a crystal foundry company supported by the Japanese government, aims to produce 2nm semiconductors in 2027, but they have high standards in terms of technology or business. Regarding Rapidus, Pat Gelsinger said that if you want to catch up with the power supply, you must have fundamentally differentiated technology. He emphasized: "One of the reasons why we came here today is to establish a contact with Japanese companies to help Rapidus."
He also mentioned investing in an American company X-LITE, which handles the next-generation semiconductor exposure technology. "After the company joins the United States, it will also set up a Japanese spot to support Rapidus."
"Andy (Grove) has a great impact on my career and life. I am very happy to inherit Andy's wisdom to the next technological generation. "Mr. Pat Gelsinger is a famous operator in the history of semiconductors. In the future, whether these experiences can help Rapidus and create a new semiconductor industry system, all walks of life are waiting and seeing.
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