Intel Announces New Chief Global Operating Officer Naga Chandrasekaran

TapTechNews July 26th news, Intel announced yesterday local time that former Micron executive Naga Chandrasekaran will replace Keyvan Esfarjani who decided to retire and serve as Intel's chief global operating officer.

Chandrasekaran will officially join Intel on August 12th and lead foundry manufacturing and supply chain management and also serve as executive vice president, reporting to Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger.

Chandrasekaran will be responsible for Intel Foundry's global production operations, including wafer fab sort manufacturing, assembly test manufacturing, Intel Foundry strategic planning, quality assurance, and supply chain.

And just in May this year, Intel announced another important personnel adjustment in the foundry business: Kevin Obakelley replaced Stuart Pann as the head of customer service and ecosystem operations for the foundry business.

TapTechNews learned from his personal LinkedIn page that Naga Chandrasekaran has more than 20 years of cumulative work experience at Micron, and the last position he held before joining Intel was senior vice president of technology development at Micron.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said:

Naga is an accomplished manager, and his deep expertise in semiconductor manufacturing and technology development will be a great complement to our team.

In the process of us continuing to build a global resilient semiconductor supply chain and create the world's first system foundry in the AI era, Naga's leadership will help us accelerate and seize the significant long-term development opportunities in the future.