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A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees

https://newsroom.intel.com/corporate/my-commitment-to-you-and-our-company
49•rntn•3h ago

Comments

rwmj•2h ago
Does he write this ridiculous verbiage himself or does he have a team of people who "hone" it to this point? This could have been a four sentence email.
rco8786•2h ago
He’s the CEO of a multi billion dollar company of course he has a comms team.
Alupis•2h ago
Some context is available here: https://apnews.com/article/intel-trump-cotton-yeary-tan-2061...

FTA:

“In March 2025, Intel appointed Lip-Bu Tan as its new CEO,” Cotton wrote in the letter. “Mr. Tan reportedly controls dozens of Chinese companies and has a stake in hundreds of Chinese advanced-manufacturing and chip firms. At least eight of these companies reportedly have ties to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.”

everfrustrated•12m ago
If true, questions should also be raised about the Board who must have signed off on any conflicts of interest.
jjcm•2h ago
It's honestly wild that a sitting US president is calling out specific company CEOs. The fact that it was done in a tweet-esque post is even more concerning. I'd expect that something like this would have been accompanied by a proper investigation and writeup stating the administration's perspective on why, but instead it's just "he's highly CONFLICTED".

I don't debate his history at Cadence Design is concerning from a national security point of view, but the approach the administration took really shows how we're in a different era of politics.

tptacek•2h ago
Eh. Without getting anywhere near the merits of this particular fracas, the federal government has gotten deeply involved in critiquing the management of companies like Lockheed and Boeing, both for national security reasons and because of the importance of those companies to the economy. Easy to see Intel fitting into that mold in 2025.
rco8786•2h ago
I don’t recall a sitting President publicly calling for the CEO of either of those companies to resign.

Please let’s not sanewash what is happening right now.

bgwalter•2h ago
President Obama:

https://www.politico.com/story/2009/03/gm-ceo-resigns-at-oba...

Sen. Warren:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/embroiled-scandal-wells...

rco8786•2h ago
These are news reports after the fact. It's not normal for a president to go on twitter and publicly deride someone into resigning.
tptacek•2h ago
The norm that’s been transgressed here is getting more and more specific, isn’t it?
rco8786•2h ago
> a sitting President publicly calling for the CEO of either of those companies to resign.

That was my original "norm" I stated. What has gotten more specific about that?

magicmicah85•1h ago
Publicly or privately, why is one fine and the other not?
scarface_74•1h ago
The other hopefully happens after the President and his advisors talk behind the scenes. This isn’t a Republican vs Democrat thing. Republican presidents never did this before.

And that happened as part of the government bailing GM out.

rco8786•1h ago
I'll answer this in earnest, assuming you're asking in good faith.

The president commands an enormous amount of power, and has an army of people who will do his bidding and simply adopt his opinions on any number of subjects. Shouting out to millions of his followers to state that the CEO of a private company is "CONFLICTED" and must resign is, by any definition, propaganda. Propaganda that changes the minds of the citizens of the country, riles up the base, and does nothing productive except to stoke anger and fear.

Working privately with this CEO, having a professional discussion with him, investigating the facts, determining that the best course of action for national security would be for him to step down, and maybe even putting some political pressure on that person to do so, and then publicly announcing the facts of what happened, is responsible governance.

It's genuinely an enormous difference.

magicmicah85•1h ago
I am asking in good faith and I understand why there would be a preference towards private versus public. It sounds like Trump does not care to attempt a private conversation as he wants Tan out. The Cadence settlement is likely the only public info we have about Tan's conflicts, the government has more info and they aren't going to spend time working through private channels, though it sounds like Tan is trying that now.
sjsdaiuasgdia•1h ago
The GM CEO had presided over a time when GM got into such bad shape they needed a government bailout, and had to come back asking for even more government money.

The Wells Fargo CEO presided over a major scandal involving customers being signed up for services they never agreed to.

What has the Intel CEO presided over during his short tenure that measures up to those?

tptacek•1h ago
Vastly increased attention on semiconductor companies as national security assets coupled with fairly extensive business relationships with companies controlled by America's chief geopolitical rival.
sjsdaiuasgdia•1h ago
Oh, so not the same kind of thing at all then...
tptacek•1h ago
You'll notice that none of the examples on this thread are the same things.
sjsdaiuasgdia•1h ago
Yeah, it seems like a lot of hot air to prop up a false equivalency.
tptacek•1h ago
I suggest not asking questions you don't want the answers to.
sjsdaiuasgdia•1h ago
I suggest not normalizing Trump's behaviors by creating false equivalencies.
tptacek•1h ago
I'm interested in what's actually happening, not how it feeds the narrative about Trump. We saw the same thing yesterday with a dozen people on HN het up about how the Library of Congress Annotated Constitution had removed Habeas from its online copy of the Constitution (along with the Navy, letters of marque and reprisal, and the No Favored Ports clause) and people said the same thing there: stop claiming this was just a website fuckup and normalizing Trump!
sjsdaiuasgdia•50m ago
Yes, what actually happened is important.

In that Constitution story, a government website that has the Constitution's text was updated in a peculiar way. It could be interpreted as having been related to habeas corpus rights, as that was in the middle of the removal. It could also be interpreted as unintentional, as the deletion started in the middle of Article I Section 8. You'd think a targeted deletion wouldn't include so much unrelated text. Then again, you could say that it's just an incompetently done targeted deletion. It's debatable! Maybe it was intentional and maybe the order came from the top. Or maybe it was just a run of the mill tech SNAFU.

In this situation, Trump, on Trump's social media platform, posted that he wants this CEO to resign. That's not debatable, it's verifiable fact. It happened. We know the man at the top is saying this.

So yeah, stop with the false equivalencies and pay attention to what's actually happening.

tptacek•48m ago
Just so we're clear that you apparently still think it's possible that an order came down from the top to delete Congress's authorization to form a Navy from the Library of Congress's online annotated Constitution, which isn't even in the first SERP for me on Google for "online constitution", but I guess you've gotta start somewhere.
morkalork•1h ago
Lockheed's CEO Carl Kotchian resigned after political pressure but he brought it on himself.
joules77•1h ago
Look up the Teddy Roosevelt era. Before his election and after he leaves.
gibbitz•1h ago
Meh, Trump wants someone as loyal and willing to spy on us as he thinks this guy was for China. I love how the right detests regulation but is okay with arbitrarily monkeying directly in the management of a company like this with no rules around it. No company is safe under this guy.
dkenyser•1h ago
Correction: The right detests regulation on the things they like at that given moment.

If it doesn't affect them directly, or they can't perceive how it will affect them directly, they simply do not care.

goatlover•1h ago
The MAGA right has demonstrated they have no principles other than whatever Trump wants at that given moment. We'll see whether the Epstein files is truly an exception to that.
cnst•1h ago
Like this?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/10/qwest-ceo-nsa-punished...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6033113

2OEH8eoCRo0•1h ago
Stupid flamebait.

Not a sitting president and the NSA doesn't need a warrant for foreign targets.

unethical_ban•11m ago
Like what?
fundad•1h ago
They may have dropped the name China Initiative but all this tough talk on China (and immigration) primes the public to believe the worst.

https://apnews.com/article/business-china-asia-beijing-race-...

parker-3461•2h ago
Additional context in https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-demands-highly-con...
michaelteter•2h ago
“The administration” does not deal in facts. It only works with themes and phrases that (fail to) give the small, unrecognized boy a sense of value.

If ever there were a case for the cost of lack of therapy, we are now witnessing it on a global, possibly catastrophic scale.

Just imagine if Hitler had been placed in charge of a superpower with our resources…

To be clear, we should not ignore the absolute reality that China and other powers are using every means available to influence global reality. But that is unrelated to the absurdity which we are now subject to.

The invisibility of Bush is the strongest indication that “the party of Reagan” is completely baffled and hiding from the monster that they and Rupert Murdoch created.

hinkley•1h ago
Therapists don’t know how to fix narcissists. And narcissists don’t want to be fixed.
DiabloD3•2h ago
This guy might be the last CEO of Intel.
getnormality•2h ago
Lots of en dashes.
xdennis•1h ago
They looked too short to be em dashes and too long to be en dashes. Sure enough, they're neither.

They're minus signs. The AI is evolving.

hinkley•1h ago
Sigh. Guess I’m going back to using way too many commas and living in fear of misusing semicolons.

This is why we can’t have nice things.

number6•46m ago
I love semicolons and dashes. AI won't take them from me!
rpcope1•2h ago
What are the odds this ends with Intel getting nationalized? I think it's really looking kind of non-zero now.
hn_throwaway_99•1h ago
It doesn't need to get officially nationalized. Trump is already using tariffs to essentially direct large businesses. It's already been reported that Trump is requiring TSMC to take a 49% stake in Intel for tariff relief.
emchammer•1h ago
Thank god Apple has been putting their eggs in their home-woven ARM basket. Now I just wish that they had a CEO who was above golden-trophy ass-kissing.
tengwar2•1h ago
Partly home-made. Arm Holdings is British-based, but owned by Softbank Group (Japanese).
gdiamos•1h ago
Arm makes a specification and standard (the ARM ISA).

Apple licenses that and develops their own chip, which is then manufactured by TSMC.

So I guess if Intel dies the US will still have a few good CPU design firms, but no manufacturing

Also note that Foxconn (China) assembles the iPhones

Eg https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-iphone-factory-foxconn...

landl0rd•53m ago
Apple still holds the license to the arm arches/designs they've used. There's enough customization applied that I'd guess Apple could function absent ARM, even if it's not the ideal scenario for them.

Plus Britain and Japan are both somewhere between close allies and client states. Nobody cares if we license from them.

hinkley•1h ago
Amd64 has other vendors.
scarface_74•1h ago
I hate everything that Cook is doing to kiss up to Trump and he did something similar during the first administration by letting Trump brag about final assembly of low selling Mac Pros was happening in the US.

But this is the country that the US wants (said as a born and bred US citizen) these are the results of it. Every CEO is kissing Trumps ass because that’s the only way you get ahead in the US now.

The media, the other two branches, colleges, tech companies etc have all bent a knee and bribed the President in one way or the other.

everfrustrated•58m ago
>because that’s the only way you get ahead in the US now.

Oh my sweet sweet summer child. How wet your ears must be.

scarface_74•51m ago
Hint: my user name will give you a clue about my age.
gjvc•51m ago
who buys intel instead of AMD at this point?
bornfreddy•29m ago
Swing traders. Also those who think China-Taiwan conflict is imminent.
everfrustrated•50m ago
I don't know anything about Tan or his history, but despite writing this press release to all his employees he doesn't address or refute any ties he or his family has with China.

Which now has me asking more questions...

ncr100•11m ago
Ah racism.

Edit: To be clearer, everybody got ties to something. This CEO person appears to be a minority. Racism is a powerful tactic Trump uses to sway opinion, and to take unfair advantage over minorities, historically (Lawsuit, along with dad Fred Trump vs their Black tenants) and today through his stable usage of racial dogwhistles.

Here, the racial dogwhistle is screaming, calling on our innate xenophobic "Us vs Them" capabilities to be misapplied.

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