An executive who oversaw the artificial intelligence (AI) business at U.S. chipmaker Intel has moved to OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT.
Sachin Katti, Intel's chief technology officer (CTO) and chief AI officer (CAIO), said on the 10th (local time) on the social networking service X (formerly Twitter), "I'm very happy to be able to work with Greg Brockman (OpenAI president), Sam Altman (OpenAI chief executive), and the OpenAI team to build artificial general intelligence (AGI) infrastructure," revealing the move.
Brockman also made the hire official, saying on X that he welcomed Katti's joining OpenAI.
Katti, a former Stanford University professor, joined Intel four years ago and led the networking institutional sector.
Lip-Bu Tan, who became Intel's chief executive officer (CEO) early this year, promoted Katti in April to CTO and CAIO during efforts to rebuild the company amid crisis, putting him in charge of the AI institutional sector.
However, at the outset of overcoming its crisis, Intel ended up letting him go. Accordingly, Intel decided to reorganize the AI institutional sector that Katti had overseen to report directly to CEO Tan.
Regarding Katti's move, Intel offered the customary thanks, saying it "appreciates his contributions," and stressed that "AI remains one of Intel's top strategic priorities."
Intel has struggled in the foundry (contract chip manufacturing) institutional sector, where market growth was strongest amid the AI boom. In particular, as Taiwan's TSMC took on contract manufacturing for Nvidia's graphics processing units (GPUs)—which see the highest demand in data centers and elsewhere as AI advances—at an almost monopolistic level, the market turned away from Intel.
Recently, however, in line with President Donald Trump's aim to revive U.S. manufacturing, the U.S. government directly invested in Intel to become a major shareholder, and companies such as Nvidia also invested in Intel, showing signs of a gradual recovery in its fortunes.
In third-quarter results released on the 24th of last month, Intel posted total profit of $4.1 billion, swinging to the black from a net loss of $16.6 billion a year earlier.