Former Intel Senior Fellow Glenn Hinton, who lists being the lead architect of Intel's Nehalem CPU core in his list of achievements, is coming out of retirement to re-join the company. The other lead architects of Nehalem are Ronak Singhal and Per Hammerlund - Ronak is still at Intel, working on next-gen processors, while Per has been at Apple for five years.
Hinton has 35 years of experience, leading microarchitecture development of Pentium 4, one of three senior architects of Intel's P6 processor design (which led to Pentium Pro, P2, P3), and was one of the brains behind Intel's Core architecture.
He also a lead microarchitect for Intel's i960 CA, the world's first super-scalar microprocessor. Hinton holds more than 90+ patents from eight CPU designs from his endeavours. Hinton spent another 10+ years at Intel after Nehalem, but Nehalem is listed in many places as his primary public achievement at Intel.
Meanwhile Gelsinger has limited the possibility of licensing chipmaking technology from outside firms, a move that could see it exchanging manufacturing secrets with rival TSMC or Samsung.
Investors are starting to insist that Chipzilla should outsource its manufacturing. The company said, however, on Thursday that while it plans to increase its use of outside factories, the majority of its 2023 products would be made internally.
"I am confident that the majority of our 2023 products will be manufactured internally", said Gelsinger.
Gelsinger said he has had some time to review Intel's work on making 7-nanometer chips. Those chips have seen multiple delays over the years, the most recent one in July.
"I've had the opportunity to personally examine progress on Intel's 7-nanometer technology over the last week. I am pleased with the progress made on the health and recovery of the seven nanometer programme", he said.
Gelsinger added that Intel, while keeping the bulk of manufacturing in its factories, will use more outside facilities than it currently does. "At the same time, given the breadth of our portfolio. It's likely that we will expand our use of external foundries for certain technologies and products we provide", said Gelsinger.
