Latest moves in organizational reshuffle
Intel has announced a leadership shuffle, including a new data center lead.
The largest change is the departure of Michelle Holthaus, chief executive of Intel Products, who will remain as a “strategic advisor over the coming months.” Her successor was not named.
Holthaus has been with Intel for more than two decades, previously serving as interim co-CEO.
Intel Products encompasses its Client Computing Group (CCG), which produces consumer chips including those for PCs and laptops, and its Data Center Group (DCG). The company’s Edge Group was folded into CCG and its networking elements were integrated into CCG and the Data Center and AI group.
Kevork Kechichian will join Intel as executive vice president and general manager of Intel’s DCG. He was formerly an executive vice president of solutions engineering at Arm and has also worked at NXP Semiconductors and Qualcomm.
The role was previously occupied in the interim by Karin Eibschitz Segal.
DCG was formerly known as the Data Center and AI Group before being split up following the appointment of current CEO Lip-Bu Tan. This rearrangement, announced in April 2025, also has DCG report directly to Tan, whereas it was previously overseen by the chief executive of Intel Products.
Jim Johnson has been promoted to senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s CCG after working in the role on an interim basis.
According to Johnson’s LinkedIn, he has been with the company for 41 years, having previously worked as senior vice president of the Client Business Group and general manager of Client Platform Engineering.
The CCG reported a three percent quarter-on-quarter increase in Q2 2025.
Srinivan Iyengar has been appointed to lead the company’s new Central Engineering Group and to build a “new custom silicon business.” He joined the company in June 2025, and it was reported at the time that he would lead a ‘customer engineering center of excellence.’
Iyengar previously headed global silicon engineering at Cadence Design Systems, which Tan was CEO of from 2009 to 2021.
The current executive vice president and CTO of Intel Foundry, Naga Chandrasekaran, will also take on the leadership mantle of Foundry Services. Chandrasekaran was previously senior vice president for technology development at Micron.
This consolidation of Intel’s foundry business follows the announcement of the company’s recent agreement with the US government, which states that the Trump administration could take an additional five percent stake of the company on top of the existing ten percent if ownership of its foundry business falls below 51 percent.
Prior to the agreement, it was reported in March that TSMC sought to engage Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, and Broadcom in a potential joint venture to operate Intel’s foundry division.
This is the latest round of internal reorganization following the appointment of current CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Since taking the helm in March 2025, Tan appointed a new chief technology and AI officer in April and a new chief revenue officer and three engineering leads in June, and fired almost 2,400 workers in Oregon in July.
Source: DCD
