Sandy Bridge engineering veteran returns to Intel

by Mark Tyson on 7 July 2021, 11:11

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Intel has rehired one of the key engineers behind its Sandy Bridge and SkyLake architecture CPUs. Shlomit Weiss has been appointed as SVP and co-general manager of the Design Engineering Group. Weiss has 26 years of experience working at Intel and only left five years ago to work for Mellanox/Nvidia, for whom she led a 1,000+ team in Israel. Conveniently, she will be able to stay in Israel and work at the Intel engineering facilities there.

Recently, a similar role at Intel was vacated by Uri Frank (on his way to Google SoC design), which might have accelerated the decision to bring back Weiss. In her new position at Intel, Weiss will work alongside Design Engineering Group global head, Sunil Shenoy, who was also inspired by CEO Pat Gelsinger's appointment to make a return to the chipmaker.

"I am thrilled to return to the place that had been my home for 28 years, where I grew and developed professionally, as a manager and as a person," Weiss said in a statement, which included admiring asides about Pat Gelsinger "charting a new, bold strategy for the company".

The above re-appointment seems to be part of a wider strategy of CEO Pat Gelsinger to hire trusted and proven Intel veterans from the era before he felt it was time to leave (to begin work at VMware). Certainly, Sandy Bridge and Skylake were standout chip designs in Intel's recent history, so the re-hiring of Weiss looks like the remixing of a winning formula. Gelsinger is also cherry-picking former lieutenants from VMware in his work to revitalise Intel.



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It could be a good sign becasue Intel have never actually made a big leap ever since …. sandy bridge cpus.
Getting the old crew back together for one last job…what could possibly go wrong?! :-)
I hope they've all looked at what made them leave in the first place, including Pat. :-)
Dr Cutress made a very good point that Intel is breaking their pattern of growing their engineers into positions of influence and excellence by rehiring the veterans of old and disrupting the cycle from within.

His video on the rehiring of Shlomit was quite insightful.
Tabbykatze
Dr Cutress made a very good point that Intel is breaking their pattern of growing their engineers into positions of influence and excellence by rehiring the veterans of old and disrupting the cycle from within.

His video on the rehiring of Shlomit was quite insightful.

yeah but if the cycle has broken down and the current crop are learning from duffers then best to bring in the big guns of old who achieved something decent and get them to teach the young crop. It's like ditching a failing fork in some code, going back a few generations and starting a new fork without the problems and bugs, and just writing the current fork segment off as a lost cause. Sucks if you're in the ditched fork, but you have to take the long term view. Some of those will be shuffled off or leave of their own accord, some can be salvaged and upskilled, others will be assigned duties according to their competence but may have little progression prospect going forwards.
ik9000
yeah but if the cycle has broken down and the current crop are learning from duffers then best to bring in the big guns of old who achieved something decent and get them to teach the young crop. It's like ditching a failing fork in some code, going back a few generations and starting a new fork without the problems and bugs, and just writing the current fork segment off as a lost cause. Sucks if you're in the ditched fork, but you have to take the long term view. Some of those will be shuffled off or leave of their own accord, some can be salvaged and upskilled, others will be assigned duties according to their competence but may have little progression prospect going forwards.

That's a fair point and well made but the problem is if they stay, they scupper the ability for new blood with new ideas to come to the fore is the point that Ian was trying to make.