SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Intel Corp. today (March 14) announced a major structural change in its communications products businesses, combining semiconductor and network systems groups into a single operation to serve Internet infrastructure customers. Along with the move, Intel is shuffling top management, and it announced the retirement of two veteran corporate executives.
The new organization will be called the Networking and Communications Group, which will be headed by executive vice president Sean M. Maloney, the former director of Intel's Sales and Marketing Group. The new operation pulls together Intel's chip-selling Network Communications Group and its systems-oriented Communications Products Group.
Intel said Mark A. Christensen, vice president and general manager of the Network Communications Group, and John H.F. Miner, vice president and general manager of the Communications Products Group, will report to Maloney.
The Santa Clara company said the single business unit is aimed at providing building blocks for networking and telecommunications customers worldwide. The new group brings together Intel Exchange Architecture (IXA) silicon components with OEM communications platforms and systems, said the company.
Replacing Maloney as the head of Intel's Sales and Marketing Group will be executive vice president Mike Splinter, who was previously co-general manager of the company's Technology and Manufacturing Group along with Sunlin Chou. Robert J. Baker is replacing Splinter as co-general manager of the Technology and Manufacturing Group. Baker has been vice president and general manager of the Intel Components Manufacturing unit, which is responsible for all of the company's wafer fab, assembly, and test manufacturing units.
Intel announced the retirement of Stephen P. Nachtsheim, vice president and director of the Intel Capital operation, as well as Gerhard H. Parker, executive vice president and general manager of the company's New Business Group. Nachtsheim, 56, will retire in June. Parker, 57, will retire in May.
Parker joined Intel in 1969, while Nachtsheim has worked for the Santa Clara company since 1981.
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