Bill Gates puts ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger on blast as he says Intel “lost its way”

Back in December 2024, we saw the then-CEO of Intel

Pat Gelsinger
step down from his position. Intel was on a pretty bad streak of luck at the time, which only just turned around after the company

saw success with its Battlemage GPUs.
Well, it seems Pat can’t quite enjoy his retirement just yet, as Bill Gates has some choice words about his reign during a recent interview.

Bill Gates is “stunned” over Intel’s current position

In an interview with the Associated Press, Bill Gates discusses various topics related to himself and technology. Well, it turns out he had high hopes for Intel when Pat Gelsinger took to the stage, but things didn’t go so well in his eyes.

I am stunned that Intel basically lost its way. (Intel co-founder) Gordon Moore always kept Intel at the state of the art. And now they are kind of behind in terms of chip design and they are kind of behind in chip fabrication. And both of those are very capital intensive. They missed the AI chip revolution, and with their fabrication capabilities, they don’t even use standards that people like Nvidia and Qualcomm find easy. I thought Pat Gelsinger was very brave to say, ‘No, I am going to fix the design side, I am going to fix the fab side.’ I was hoping for his sake, for the country’s sake that he would be successful. I hope Intel recovers, but it looks pretty tough for them at this stage.

Who can blame Bill Gates for making such statements? After all, there was the period when

Raptor Lake instability issues caused permanent damage
and then had

similar issues with the Arrow Lake CPUs,
which it tried to fix

but failed.
It’s a good thing that Battlemage is doing well, as Intel’s CPUs have seen better days.