{"id":1009842,"date":"2026-05-25T11:49:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009842"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:49:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:19:38","slug":"intel-ceo-lip-bu-tan-has-a-blunt-new-chip-rule-for-engineers-youre-fired-if-you-dont-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/25\/intel-ceo-lip-bu-tan-has-a-blunt-new-chip-rule-for-engineers-youre-fired-if-you-dont-get\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has a blunt new chip rule for engineers: You\u2019re fired if you don\u2019t get\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has issued a blunt ultimatum to his engineers: deliver chips that work on the first tape-out, or face the sack. Speaking at JP Morgan&#8217;s tech conference, Tan said A0 silicon must go straight to production, B0 is tolerated, anything beyond gets you fired. The Intel CEO, who also told CNBC&#8217;s Jim Cramer he scrapped reporting silos, is rewriting the chipmaker&#8217;s design culture to chase TSMC.<\/p>\n<p>Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has put a hard line under his engineering teams: get a chip right on the first tape-out, or start looking for another job. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has issued a blunt ultimatum to his engineers: deliver chips that work on the first tape-out, or face the sack. Speaking at JP Morgan&#8217;s tech conference, Tan said A0 silicon must go straight to production, B0 is tolerated, anything beyond gets you fired. The Intel CEO, who also told CNBC&#8217;s Jim Cramer he scrapped reporting silos, is rewriting the chipmaker&#8217;s design culture to chase TSMC. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has put a hard line under his engineering teams: get a chip right on the first tape-out, or start looking for another job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009843,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009842\/revisions\/1009843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}