[SoSoRoCoCo]

Gelsinger was pushed out as CTO after horribly failing to address AMD's competitive threats. I have no idea how he wormed his way back in, but this does not bode well for Intel's future: Gelsinger is proof of the "Peter Principle", being promoted too high.

EDIT: I was a bit harsh, toned it down.

EDIT 2: This is probably petty, but I can't ignore the fact that there was a significant hubbub at Intel regarding him using the "Dr" prefix. He scrubbed it from his bio and internal pages when it was pointed it out didn't come from an accredited university and that it was honorary. He also caught flak internally for having the pope bless a wafer for Intel's future success. It was very weird, especially given the high percentage of Muslim engineers at Intel, and its focus on neutrality.

[eco]

Silicon wafer or communion wafer?

[scandox]

Jesus was carbon based ... As far as we know.

[angry_octet]

The Church of the Silicon Jesus. I like it.

[jhloa2]

Any references on the Pope blessing a wafer? I really want to see this but can't find it

[SoSoRoCoCo]

Nope, I can't find it on Google. Nada. Even on Wayback. It may have been internal but I definitely remember it. It was pope Benedict.

[foobiekr]

seconded. that's insane.

[me_me_me]

I doubt that anyone at Intel might be offended by the blessing of a wafers if it worked xD

The stock jumped quite high though. Not sure if its because really bad ceo was replaced with slightly less bad one.

[ZeroCool2u]

As an Intel shareholder, (only bought when it tanked after quarterly earnings this year), I can say this is exactly what I was waiting for.

I'm not super sensitive to exactly who replaces Bob, though Pat seems like a decent choice having read about him now.

I will say I was ready to unload the shares if Bob was replaced with another MBA though. Having a non-engineer lead an organization like Intel was a disastrous choice and seriously makes me question the boards judgement.

[chrisseaton]

Richard Stallman uses the title 'Doctor' with only an honorary doctorate - people seem to think it's fine for some reason.

[bjornsing]

Isn’t it a bit petty to deny him that? It seems a hell of a lot harder to me to get a honorary doctorate than a normal PhD, and I can think of a lot of PhDs who deserve their doctor title a lot less than Stallman.

[chrisseaton]

Kanye West, Ben Affleck, Jon Bon Jovi, etc, all have honorary doctorates. Why does nobody call them Doctor? For the same reason you shouldn't call Stallman Doctor - because you don't do that for honorary doctorates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorary_degree#Use_of_title_a...

Almost all universities explicitly and strongly tell people they give honorary degrees to to not do this.

https://www.wthrockmorton.com/2017/12/11/honorary-doctorate-...

[m463]

Good thing Dan Aykroyd got an honorary doctorate (Carleton) to back up Doctor Detroit.

[bjornsing]

Well that’s just social convention, and I don’t place much emphasis on that. I reserve the right to address anyone I choose as “doctor”, and if Stallman prefers to be addressed that way I’m happy to oblige. He has certainly earned it in my book.

Same goes for Benjamin Franklin btw, whom I see you left out of your list.

[chrisseaton]

You’re free to call him Saint IGNUcius if you want - many people do - and it’s a similar level of connection to reality.

[bjornsing]

I find this kind of credentialism a bit silly to be honest. If there’s anything with little connection to reality it’s 90% of dissertations.

[angry_octet]

If no one (including MIT) decided they could grant him a PhD on the basis of publications (rather than the more traditional thesis route) I don't see why we should use the honorific. Also, I know plenty of distinguished engineers who don't have a PhD, and they seem fine with it. It is the extremely vain who travel around being feted for faded laurels who I have no time for.

Also, what's up with Peru? Marxism? https://stallman.org/biographies.html

[WatchDog]

He apparently has 14 honorary doctorates, maybe after receiving 10 it's ok.

[mhh__]

Damn, didn't read about that technique in Hennessy and Patterson.

Odd.

[crististm]

2012 was five years behind AMD making the comeback. If they saw that far into the future and didn't do anything else in that timeframe then maybe firing him was not for missing the strategy.

[1024core]

Well, $INTC is up bigtime today, so I'm guessing the market disagrees with you. Only time will tell.