Intel: Manager of the Ultra Mobility Group leaves

Anand Chandrasekher, director of Intel’s Mobility Group and supervisor of the Atom mobile processors strategy, will leave his post after 24 years service with the chipset manufacturer. Could it be that he is a victim of Intel’s late arrival to the Smartphone’s segment?

Anand Chandrasekher has for the last few years had difficulty promoting the Intel Atom platform which allows Intel to integrate into the mobile universe, beginning with netbooks.

The manager of Intel’s Ultra Mobility Group (UMG) was regularly in the firing line for presenting diverse platform evolutions which slowly brought the company closer to tablets and Smartphone’s.

But this is an objective which takes time and for which Intel began late, now finding them well behind the competition provided by ARM Holdings’ compatible processor architectures.

Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel, has indicated on numerous occasions that despite repeated efforts, the chipset manufacturer is four years late – something that is difficult to make up. During this time, the Smartphone’s market, and now that of tactile tablets, began taking off… without Intel.


Chandrasekher thanked
This delay could well be behind the departure of Anand Chandrasekher, after 24 years of good and loyal service at Intel, from his role as manager of UMG so that he can "pursue other opportunities".... outside of the chipset manufacturer.

The technology shows at the beginning of this year demonstrated a large range of mobile products using ARM processors, but very few x86 equivalent processors. And while even claiming that they have obtained 35 "design wins" for tablets in 2011 with the Medfield platform, which should meet the requirements of mobile products, these wont be available until the end of the year.

Chandrasekher’s functions within the UMG will now be taken over by Mike Bell and Dave Whalen, both managers of the Intel Architecture Group.