FILE PHOTO: A smartphone with a displayed Intel logo is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken March 6, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
(Reuters) - Intel tapped former board member Lip-Bu Tan as its CEO on Wednesday, as the struggling American chipmaking icon attempts to emerge from one of its bleakest periods.
Tan, a respected semiconductor industry veteran who will take the mantle on March 18, had been seen as a CEO contender since Intel ousted company veteran Pat Gelsinger last year.
Here are some details about him:
Source: LinkedIn, Intel website
(Reporting by Arasu Kannagi Basil and Bhanvi Satija in Bengaluru and Juby Babu in Mexico City; Editing by Alan Barona)
