1. Patrick Paul Gelsinger is an American business executive and engineer, who was the CEO of Intel from February 2021 to December 2024.
23 Facts About Pat Gelsinger
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Pat Gelsinger left Intel in 2009 and was the CEO of VMware and president and chief operating officer at EMC, before returning to Intel as CEO in February 2021.
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Pat Gelsinger then skipped his final year at Conrad Weiser High School and left home at 16 for college.
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Pat Gelsinger first joined Intel at 18 years old in 1979 just after earning an associate degree from Lincoln Tech.
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Pat Gelsinger spent much of his career with the company in Oregon, where he maintains a home.
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Pat Gelsinger was the lead architect of the 4th generation 80486 processor introduced in 1989.
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Pat Gelsinger launched the Intel Developer Forum conference as a counterpart to Microsoft's WinHEC.
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Pat Gelsinger rejoined Intel as their new CEO on February 15,2021, after previously having a 30 year-long career at the company in various technical engineering and leadership roles.
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Pat Gelsinger led Intel's course correction, including construction of two $20 billion Arizona manufacturing plants for its planned expansion.
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In May 2021, Pat Gelsinger was interviewed by Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes.
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Pat Gelsinger stated that Intel plans to catch up with Taiwanese chip manufacturer TSMC and Korean chip manufacturer Samsung within the next five years.
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Pat Gelsinger announced a planned three and a half-billion dollar upgrade to Intel's fab in New Mexico.
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In March 2022, Pat Gelsinger personally announced the start of an entirely new fab built for roughly $20 billion near Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany to employ 7,000 people during construction work and 3,000 people in production work in 2027.
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On December 1,2024, Pat Gelsinger stepped down from the position of Intel CEO and from the company's board of directors.
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On March 24,2025, Pat Gelsinger was named as the executive chair and the head of technology of church-focused messaging platform Gloo, which he was a board member and investor.
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On March 26,2025, Pat Gelsinger announced he'd become general partner at the venture capital firm Playground Global.
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Pat Gelsinger was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2008 and is a director of the Semiconductor Industry Association.
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Pat Gelsinger is a member of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.
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In 2021, Pat Gelsinger was appointed to President Joe Biden's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
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Pat Gelsinger was a guest at Biden's State of the Union Address in March 2022.
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In October 2021, Pat Gelsinger was inducted into Indiana Wesleyan University's Society of World Changers.
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In 2013, Pat Gelsinger co-founded Transforming the Bay with Christ, a coalition of business leaders, venture capitalists, non-profit leaders and pastors that aims to convert one million people over the next decade.
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Pat Gelsinger helped establish the Sacramento-area Christian institution William Jessup University from which he received an honorary doctorate.