Intel veteran Patrick Gelsinger departs, major shuffle in management likely

According to latest update, Intel Corp, the chip maker is expected to announce a management shuffle, which will see its core chip business-head Mr. Patrick Gelsinger leave the company after 30 years.

The report further added that 48-year-old Mr. Gelsinger has left the Intel job and would now run computer-storage giant EMC's storage-products operations and some smaller software units. 
Mr. Gelsinger had joined Intel in 1979 and led Intel Labs, which encompasses many Intel research activities, and was Intel's chief technology officer.

After the departure of Mr. Gelsinger, it seems that Sean Maloney, Intel's head of sales and marketing, would take on an even larger role at the company. Also, Intel is expected to reveal a sweeping management change on September 14th.

Now, all of Intel's major chip businesses, including its PC, graphics and server chips would fall under Sean Maloney. Further, Mr. Dadi Perlmutter, the head of Intel's laptop chips, would oversee engineering for all the chip divisions after the reshuffle. 

Various analysts consider Mr. Maloney, Intel's sales chief as one of the possible successors to Intel CEO Paul Otellini.