Most corporations have this policy.
Anyways cool. Maybe they’ll get some better management.
What ever happened to those days where two people could just bang and it wouldn’t make the news?
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That was before the internet.
Two people can still bang and not make the news, but when one of them is CEO of a multi-billion dollar multi-national company and the other is his employee then its kinda newsworthy 
Hon, the nsa knows all, so you might as well put on a show.
And put it on pornhub to make that sweet adsense.
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I like to think that Brian liked to think of himself as ‘Big Intel’ and had her wear a mask that said ‘AMD’ on it.
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If your a CEO and a winner you can fuck while incorrect politically , an intersex employee.
Otherwise you get chewed up and spit out.
Revamped whether or not ‘men should be allowed to bully women’ is a matter of opinion not fact, what constitutes bullying is subjective not objective, and I reject the proposition that bullying has anything to do with the so claimed consensual sexual relations. Not that bullying is a gender specific issue now is it?
Nor does it appear obvious that the departure of the CEO has anything to do with sexual relations, firstly If he cared so much as he claimed he wouldn’t have engaged in those relations, secondly the so called relations happened a long time ago, and thirdly Intels position is looking for the first time in a decade+ to be in the remotest sense of danger due to a combination of architectural failings, fallings to predict change and dominant mobile (arm), and issues at the foundries.
I suspect that it is the accumulation of these issues over time that Intel now faces and not any claimed consensual sexual relations that may or may not be entirely made up that best explains this CEO’s departure.
I think it is well played from Intel, if they dismiss their CEO the market would react immediately and Intel’s shares would go down extremely rapidly but…
…they can make a cool love story and everyone will be talking about their “relationship policy” etc. And all their problems are in the background even on tech forums like this one, 
where we know all that.
I really don’t think it is as complex as that. He’s stumbled a bit, and this was a catalyst to get rid of him.
He should have known better. In a public company, you don’t want the CEO having decisions influenced by whether he’s getting laid by the staff reporting to him or not.
And despite people’s best efforts, there will be bias there in that sort of situation. Or even perceived bias. Which is just as toxic within the troops.
Thro it is doubtfull that even if this alleged relations happened in the first place that it would pose any impact over the overall strategic decision making of the CEO as Intel is a large organization, presumably divided into several bussiness divisions, individually and collectively overseen and administered by their own leadership teams, with decisions made by comitees on the basis of established decision making frameworks.
Sexual relations with one individual is unlikely to have a bearing at this level of management in a firm the size of intel with a professional management team and a formalized management structure. Secondly lets be realistic, the man was earning 20million a year, I don’t know and don’t care what his net worth is, but I know that his income, net worth, intelligence, and charisma is such that he has options, be they prostitutes or women willing to kill each other to have an actual relationship with him.
He could likely find better people for either a casual or long-term relationship with people outside of the company just as easily as within, and much easeier than the average man. Therefore the value of sexual relations with the individual women is reduces to near 0.
He could litterally spend $1m a year (2.7K a day) on prostitutes (and I am sure there are people that do) and it would be like the average american spending $100 a week or $15 a day on ‘enertainment’ which could be anything. it could be friday drinks, it could be depreciation on your computer, video games, micro-transactions, paint-ball, spotify, tickets to a football game, whatever, and vary from week to week.
What this really smells like to me (and as was discussed earlier) they were looking for an excuse to let him go.
It was totally time for him to go, for two reasons:
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Failure on process reduction. If you are fully vertical as Intel is, you need to hedge yourself against… yourself. If even one part of your stack fails, it delays the rest of the machine and costs the rest of the company tons of money. I think of it like a single stuck watch gear jamming the rest of the mechanism. Brian failed to hedge properly.
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Failure to respond to AMD. AMDs new chips - while core for core less powerful than Intel - have changed the game. AMD is setting the stage for a new “Megahertz Wars”, but with cores instead. The lack of response from Intel makes it seem like AMD is “winning”, even if its not quite the case. Yet, at least.
If AMD can keep amping up core counts, AND deliver a process reduction? Intel stands to loose at least a generation like they did back in the Athlon 64 days.
I also found this analysis of the landscape interesting: https://stratechery.com/2018/intel-and-the-danger-of-integration/
tl;dr: Brian gave AMD a serious fighting chance, and the board is pissed, so they went and dug around his skeleton closet.
It only needs to be a perceived conflict of interest or possible conflict for the board/shareholders to be affected.
Well as demonstrated, it was the excuse for him to be essentially fired.
Perhaps, the cynic however would suggest that he was neither fired nor resigned, that this presumably made up affair is just a new innovation of marketing to allow him to depart and loose even less faith, that in reality as the CEO he is a cog in the wheel, one of a number of upper management including members of the board, division heads and their assistants.
That by ‘taking one for the team’ (one probably meanining a 60 or 80 million dollar golden bouncy castle) the remaining 95% of the management team, the board of directors, division and functional heads, and all of their assistants get to keep their job, get to carry on as before. That therefore this is a marketing exercise, an exercise in perception management and perceived value and that likely they will merely announce a ‘restructuring’ and a ‘new direction’ which in reality will change nothing.
No I think the sum total of their response was to bring on Jim Keller and Raja Koduri because management doesn’t know what to do, but they know who does, so they bring in the contractor, the consultant, to do their managing for them. And that is a sad story, but yeah… If you can’t compete or have no idea of what you are doing, bring in the management from your competitor and create another level in the beuracracy… I hope Jim Keller and Raja Kaduri negotiated for a great profit sharing or equity scheme because its looking like they will be running the profit centers.
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It would most likely be depressing to find out how much resigning over Intel’s non-fraternization policy breaches made him.
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About 6.9 million USD. Although, the article does say “may”.
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Basically the only thing that makes sense. Because overall the timing is too suspect…
This is something that happend years ago and now their all-star CEO just randomly resigns?
IT seems more like their choices to push marketing over engineering in the last years have come back to bit them in the butt and someone has to take the fall for it.