According to foreign media The Register, Ronak Singhal, chief architect of the Xeon series server processor under Intel, announced that he had left his post at the end of the month and was looking for new development opportunities. Ronak Singhal's nearly 30-year career at Intel is about to end. His departure is another case of Intel's recent continuous loss of senior executives, which has triggered the industry's concern about the stability of future talents.

As a senior academician of Intel and a responsible person in the Xeon processor department, Ronak Singhal joined Intel in 1997, owning a Carnegie Melon University Motor and Computer Engineering degree, and holds at least 30 CPU-related patents. His most famous contribution is to lead the development of Intel's 22-nanometer Haswell and 14-nanometer Broadwell processor architecture cores. His innovative unlimited data center, the success of the Intel Core and Atom processor series also plays a major role.

Although the release of Intel's Sapphire Rapids processor has been delayed, it has allowed competitor AMD's core number to gain the lead and also achieved the market lead. But Ronak Singhal is ready to leave the Xeon department and is also the most competitive position for many years, as the fall 2024 Granite Rapids Xeon 6900 processor gradually narrows the gaps in cores, time, memory bandwidth and PCIe performance with AMD server processors.

However, Ronak Singhal's contributions still cannot conceal the pressure of Intel's Xeon department in recent years. Not only AMD's attack, but more and more customized cloud processors based on Arm architecture have risen. The latest market report shows that Arm architecture processors occupy 25% of the server market. Mercury Research Research Report also shows that AMD has mastered about 41% of the server revenue share, which all show the serious challenges in the Intel Data Center market.

Ronak Singhal is one of several senior executives who have left the Xeon department since 2025. Sailesh Kottapalli, senior executives Lisa Spelman, Ryan Tabrah, Justin Hotard, Michelle Johnston Holthaus, and leave jobs have all become part of recent reforms. Then, former Arm engineer Kevork Kechichian took over as the engineering department of the Intel Data Center, Jim Johnson was responsible for the customer computing department, and Srinivasan (Srini) Iyengar led the new central engineering department.

message was released, Intel stated that Ronak Singhal had left his post, but refused to provide further comments. Ronak Singhal has no response. Faced with fierce competition in the market and continuous high-level talent loss, Intel's strategy and talent stability will undoubtedly become the focus of continuous attention in the industry.