After Bob Swan had to resign as CEO of Intel and has now taken over Pat Gelsinger as a longtime, former engineer and later CTO, further new hires are on the horizon. Glenn Hinton, the head behind the development of the Nehalem architecture, is also returning to Intel after three years of retirement.

Hinton announced on LinkedIn:

“After enjoying a real retirement for 3 years I have decided to go back to work at Intel (where I previously worked for 35 years). What would entice me to do something like that? I will be working on an exciting high performance CPU project. Having Pat Gelsinger coming back as CEO also helped me finalize my decision to come back. “

In his post, Hinton announces that he will be working on a” high performance CPU project “will work. Just like Gelsinger, Hinton worked for Intel for several decades. After his first ten years at Intel, he 1990 first became better known as the chief developer for the Pentium 4 processor. Previously, he was one of three lead architects for the P6 architecture in 1990. This became the Pentium Pro, Pentium II and Pentium III. The P6 architecture forms the basis for the Nehalem architecture and the first core processors.

With Pat Gelsinger at the helm and staff like Glenn Hinton, Intel is returning to the roots of a successful era. Internal and external calls for a new leadership orientation have been getting louder for a long time. Bob Swan was a man of numbers, but a company like Intel should be run by someone with a technical background. Gelsinger as the new CEO is likely to fulfill this role, but whether the desired goals can also be implemented depends on the rest of the management staff.