Intel has announced a host of new executive appointments, including the appointment of a new chief revenue officer and three engineering leads.

Greg Ernst, a twenty-year sales veteran at Intel, is to take over as CRO, with Srinivasan Iyengar, Jean-Didier (J-D) Allegrucci, and Shailendra Desai having joined Intel from other companies.

Iyengar has been appointed SVP and fellow at Intel and is set to lead a newly formed ‘customer engineering center of excellence’. The former global silicon engineering lead at Cadence Design Systems will be part of Intel’s executive team and report directly to Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan.

Allegrucci joins the chipmaker from Rain AI, having previously spent 17 years overseeing the development of system-on-chips (SoCs) at Apple. He has been named VP of AI SoC engineering and will be responsible for managing the development of multiple SoCs that will be part of Intel’s AI roadmap, Intel said in a statement.

Finally, Desai has been given the role of VP of AI fabric and networking, and, similarly to Allegrucci, will also be responsible for the development of SoC architecture for Intel’s AI GPUs. Desai joins from Google, having previously founded Provino Technologies, an SoC startup acquired by Google in 2021.

Both Allegrucci and Desai will report to Sachin Katti, Intel’s chief technology and AI officer, who was himself appointed to the role in April 2025.

“We see significant opportunities ahead to strengthen our product offerings and meet the changing needs of our customers,” said Tan. “Greg, Srini, J-D, and Shailendra are highly accomplished leaders with strong reputations across our ecosystem, and they will each play important roles as we position our business for the future.”

Earlier this week, it was reported that Intel is planning to reduce its headcount by between 15 and 20 percent, with the company’s manufacturing staff likely to be heavily impacted by the job cuts.

Citing an internal memo from Intel manufacturing VP, Naga Chandrasekaran, The Oregonian reported that staff were told: “These reductions will be based on a combination of portfolio changes, level and position elimination, skill assessment for remaining positions, and some hard decisions around our project investments… We are also taking into consideration factory operations impact.”

Tan took over as CEO of Intel in March 2025, following the sudden ‘retirement’ of former CEO Pat Gelsinger in late 2024. In the wake of his appointment, it was reported that Intel was planning to cut 20 percent of its workforce as part of a restructuring initiative that would streamline Intel’s management and make engineering the key focus of the company.

Prior to Tan taking the helm, Intel laid off 15,000 workers in the second half of 2024 following heavy financial losses.