Good memory, anon. I recall this Intel woman from my dig on her last year.
Renee James
Here's new sauce on her:
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/former-intel-executive-renee-james-launches-ampere-new-arm-based-server-chip-company/
from the sauce:
"Ampere is wholly owned and was funded by The Carlyle Group, where James has been working for a while building Ampere in stealth mode. The 250-person company doesn’t plan to build its own chip-making factories, which requires a huge investment, partnering instead with TSMC on this first generation.
James was an an Intel lifer before stepping down as president in 2015, a role she and Krzanich had proposed to Intel’s board following the retirement of CEO Paul Otellini. She’s likely familiar to Seattle-area techies of a certain age as Intel’s key representative on negotiations with Microsoft at the height of the Wintel era.
When she resigned somewhat unexpectedly two years after taking the #2 spot, she told Intel employees in an internal memo that “when Brian and I were appointed to our current roles, I knew then that being the leader of a company was something that I desired as part of my own leadership journey.”
Now all she has to do is go head to head with one of the most iconic companies in American history, a company to which she devoted decades of her life."