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Intel is hoping for a turnaround under its new CEO, Lip-BuTan.  Intel’s Q1 2025 revenue was $12.7 billion, flat year-over-year. While its Client Computing Group (CCG) revenue dropped 8%, the Data Center and AI (DCAI) segment showed an 8% increase, driven by Xeon volume.

Intel is pushing its Gaudi 3 AI accelerators and report that it’s on track for volume production of its Intel 18A process technology in the second half of 2025, a critical step in its attempt to regain manufacturing leadership. This 18A node will underpin future products like Panther Lake CPUs, expected in the second  half of 2025.

The company is investing in the AI PC segment with its Core Ultra processors, focusing on on-device AI capabilities and a broader AI Everywhere strategy. Intel’s strategy hinges on improving execution, driving operational efficiencies (targeting $17 billion in operating expenses for 2025, down from previous goals), and rapidly scaling its foundry business (Intel Foundry Services – IFS) to become a major contract manufacturer.

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Intel bets on on-device AI and US fabs to power the next generation of PCs

October 10, 2025: Intel unveiled its Core Ultra series 3 processors, the first client chips built on its 18A process node , as enterprises gear up for a wave of PC refreshes driven by Microsoft’s October 2025 end-of-support deadline for Windows 10.

Report: AMD could be Intel’s next foundry customer

October 3, 2025: The notion of these two companies working together may seem over-the-top over, but Intel and AMD are already joined at the hip. In 2004 Intel licensed AMD’s x86-64 64-bit extensions, and they are still used in every Intel processor to this day.

Who wins/loses with the Intel-Nvidia union?

September 22, 2025: Nvidia is dipping into its $56 billion bank account to acquire a 5% stake in Intel for $5 billion, making it the second largest shareholder of Intel stock after the federal government’s recent investment. The deal provides Nvidia greater access to the x86 ecosystem, important for the enterprise data center market, and provides Intel with access to GPUs that have demand and can move their CPU products as well.

Intel will design CPUs with Nvidia NVLink in return for $5 billion investment

September 18, 2025: Intel will collaborate with Nvidia to design CPUs with Nvidia’s NVLink high-speed chip interconnect, it said Thursday — just months after committing to co-develop a competing interconnect, UALink, with AMD, Broadcom, and other tech companies.

Network discovery gets a boost from Intel-spinout Articul8

September 5, 2025: Modern network infrastructure can include thousands of switches and routers, and configuration changes occur dynamically. It’s a challenge that Articul8, which was spun out of Intel in January 2024, is aiming to solve with its Weave Network Topology Agent.

Intel touts efficiency and performance in new 288-core Xeon processor

August 27, 2025: The Hot Chips conference was the backdrop for Intel’s newest Xeon processor, the all-E-core codenamed Clearwater Forest and the first Xeon built on the company’s next-generation 18A process node.

Intel warns US govt equity stake could disrupt its global business and strategic deals

August 26, 2026: Intel warned that granting the US government an equity stake could subject the company to “additional regulations, obligations or restrictions” in foreign markets and limit its ability to pursue strategic transactions that are beneficial to shareholders.

As US takes 10% stake in Intel, new questions arise for enterprise buyers

August 25, 2025: US President Donald Trump’s announcement Friday that the US government is taking a 9.9% stake in Intel to defend national interests will shift the dynamics of IT procurement globally.

Intel saga continues: Federal bailout questions and another voice undermines CEO Tan

August 18, 2025: The latest developments in the ongoing soap opera that is Intel sees the federal government considering purchasing a stake in the company in a bid to speed up completion of its delayed advanced fabrication facilities, while yet another executive is casting aspersions on CEO Lip-Bu Tan.

Despite the hubbub, Intel is holding onto server market share

August 15, 2025: Intel is holding on to market share in both client and server markets against AMD despite the seemingly endless stream of bad news surrounding the company. Second quarter 2025 chip sales were roughly flat for both companies with very little share trading hands, according to Mercury Research.

Trump meets with Intel CEO after calling for resignation

August 12, 2025: The latest development in Intel’s clash with President Trump suggests a more amicable relationship after a Monday meeting with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan at the White House. After the meeting, Trump backed off his demand that Tan resign and called him a “success.”

Intel’s chip yield woes threaten Panther Lake launch and PC supply chains

August 6, 2025: Intel’s 18A process for its upcoming Panther Lake chips faces uncertainty over yields, fueling concerns about production readiness and possible ripple effects across the supply chain. The process introduces new transistor designs and a more efficient power delivery method, but has so far delivered only a small percentage of chips that meet Intel’s quality standards.

Intel networking unit spinoff, earnings uproar, AI snub

July 31, 2025: It’s been an eventful time for chip vendor after its earnings call and then news that Intel is spinning off its Network and Edge Group (NEX) as a standalone business. Intel made no formal announcement on the spin-off.

Intel to lay off 22% of workforce as CEO Tan signals ‘no more blank checks’

July 25, 2025: Intel will reduce its workforce by 22% to 75,000 employees by the end of 2025 as new CEO Lip-Bu Tan implements sweeping changes designed to transform the struggling chipmaker into a more disciplined, cost-conscious organization, the company said during its second-quarter earnings call Thursday.

Intel CEO: We are not in the top 10 semiconductor companies

July 15, 2025: Intel’s CEO Lip-Bu Tan told employees that Intel is not among the leading chip companies, a stark contrast to the perpetual sunny, cheerful optimism of his predecessor Pat Gelsinger.

Intel spinout Cornelis Networks offers alternative to Infiniband or Ethernet for HPC and AI networks

June 3, 2025: The CN5000 platform from Cornelis Networks is engineered to tackle compute underutilization and alleviate bottlenecks in AI and HPC workloads.

Intel eyes exit from NEX unit as focus shifts to core chip business

May 21, 2025: Intel may sell its Network and Edge (NEX) business, marking the latest step in a broader effort to reshape the company under new CEO Lip-Bu Tan.

Shell’s immersive cooling liquids the first to receive official certification from Intel

May 20, 2025: Intel has certified Shell Global Solutions’ immersion cooling fluids for use in data centers. Shell’s fluids are the first to receive official certification from a major chip manufacturer.

Intel sells off majority stake in its FPGA business

April 16, 2025: Intel spun off its programmable solutions group as a standalone FPGA company, selling a majority stake in the company to a private equity firm. Intel is taking a fairly hefty loss on this deal. It acquired Altera in 2015 for $16.7 billion but the deal with Silver Lake technology investments values Altera at $8.75 billion total, with Intel getting $4.4 billion for the sale.

An Intel-TSMC deal could reshape x86 future and enterprise chip supply chains

April 8, 2025: Intel is reportedly in advanced discussions with TSMC to form a joint venture that could potentially reshape the x86 platform and the global semiconductor landscape. The move — initiated in part by the US government — marks a potential turning point for Intel,

New Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan begins to lay out technology roadmap

April 4, 2025: On the job for two weeks, newly appointed Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan gave a major speech at a partner conference this week where he said the ailing company needs to get its act together, and he doesn’t want customers to hold back on their criticism of Intel.

IBM Cloud speeds AI workloads with Intel Gaudi 3 accelerators

April 2, 2025: IBM Cloud is broadening its AI technology services with Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerators now available to enterprise customers. With Gaudi 3 accelerators, customers can more cost-effectively test, deploy and scale enterprise AI models and applications, according to IBM.

Intel under Tan: What enterprise IT buyers need to know

March 14, 2025: Intel’s appointment of semiconductor veteran Lip-Bu Tan as CEO marks a critical moment for the company and its enterprise customers. With rising competition from AMD, Arm-based chips, and RISC-V alternatives, Intel faces mounting pressure to defend its x86 dominance.

Intel targets edge, high-performance computing with extended Xeon 6 chip line

February 24, 2025: Intel has expanded its Xeon 6 line of processors, adding models 6700/6500 for high-performance cores and edge computing devices to the family.

What Intel needs to do to get its mojo back

January 22, 2025: The once undisputed king of the chip market, Intel is on its knees. Here’s what it needs to do to get back on its feet.

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Without support from her family, Mini Thomas says, she would not have had a successful career in academia.

The IEEE senior member has held several leadership positions in India, including dean of engineering at the Delhi Technological University (formerly the Delhi College of Engineering) and (the first female) president of the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. Today she is a professor of electrical engineering at Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi, where she formerly was a dean.

Mini Thomas

Employer:

Jamia Millia Islamia, in New Delhi

Title:

Professor of electrical engineering

Member grade:

Senior member

Alma maters:

University of Kerala; the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras; the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

Thomas, an expert in power systems and smart grids, is working to get more women into the power and energy industry.

She is an active IEEE volunteer, having worked with student branches and membership recruitment. As a member of the IEEE Technology for a Sustainable Climate Matrix Organization, she shares her knowledge about energy, climate-resilient infrastructure, and ozone-layer recovery.

“For a woman to succeed, she needs a lot of family support,” Thomas says, because many women’s careers are interrupted by caretaking and child-rearing responsibilities. She acknowledges that not all women have the same support system she has—which is part of the reason why she is dedicated to helping others succeed.

A passion for teaching

Thomas was born and raised in Kerala, India. Kerala students who excelled at school were expected to choose a career in either medicine or engineering, she says. Medicine wasn’t an option for her, she says, because she faints at the sight of blood. She was good at mathematics, though, so she chose to pursue engineering.

Although both her parents were teachers (her father taught chemistry; her mother was a language instructor), she wasn’t inspired to pursue a similar path until she was an undergraduate at the University of Kerala. Her extensive note-taking during class made her popular among her classmates, she says, and some would ask her to tutor them during exam season.

“My friends would come over to my home so I could explain the material to them using my notes,” she says. “Afterward, they would tell me that they were able to understand the subject much better than how the professor had explained it. That’s what inspired me to become a teacher.”

After earning her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1984, Thomas continued her education at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Shortly after earning her master’s of technology in electrical engineering in 1986, she began her first teaching job at the National Institute of Technology, Calicut, also in Kerala.

The year was a whirlwind for Thomas, who got married, left her job, and moved to New Delhi, where her husband lived. Instead of searching for another teaching job, she decided to pursue a doctoral degree in the electrical engineering program at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

“By the time I was 28, I had a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, which I earned in 1990,” she says. “I soon got a job at Delhi Technological University, the only other college in New Delhi that had an engineering school at that time, other than IIT. From there, I never looked back.”

She taught at the university for five years, then left in 1995 to join Jamia Millia Islamia. She eventually was promoted to lead the electrical engineering department.

During her 11 years there, she established labs to conduct research in supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and substation automation, collaborating with industry on projects. In 2003 she created a curriculum for—and led the launch of—a master’s of technology program in electrical power system management as well as a training program for industry professionals. For her work, she received a 2015 IEEE Educational Activities Board Meritorious Achievement Award.

In 2014 she founded the school’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship to help startups turn their ideas into prototypes and launch businesses.

She received an offer she couldn’t refuse in 2016: become president of the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli.

“This was a great honor to become the first woman president of that institute,” she says. “I was the only woman among 90 presidents of all the institutions of national importance at that time.”

But, she says, as president, she didn’t have much time to teach, and after five years, she began to miss her time in the classroom. After her five-year term was completed, she returned to Jamia Millia Islamia in 2021 as engineering dean. Since then, she has led the launch of five programs: three undergraduate programs (in data science, electrical and computer engineering, and VLSI) and graduate programs in data science and environmental sciences.

This year she stepped down after completing her three-year term as dean and is focusing more on teaching.

She teaches at least one class each semester because, she says, she finds joy in “imparting and giving knowledge to young minds.”

Mentoring women in the power industry

Thomas mentors doctoral students as well as professors who aspire to serve as deans or other high-level positions.

In addition, she trains mid-career women in the power industry on the skills they need to get promoted—to technical and senior management roles—through the South Asia WePOWER network’s South Asia Region (SAR) 100 professional development program. WePOWER is a coalition of nonprofit and government organizations that aim to increase the number of women working in the power and energy sectors through education. A 2020 World Bank study found that the percentage of women in technical roles in the industry in South Asia ranges from 0.1 to 21.

The six-month-long program provides technical training, mentorship, and networking opportunities to 100 women from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Thomas is one of 40 experts who remotely teach topics such as transmission details, distribution, renewable energy, and the importance of women in leadership.

She also mentors women to give them confidence and tools to reach leadership positions because “mentorship is what changed my career trajectory,” she says. When she first began teaching, she says she was reluctant to take high-level positions. But after participating in a six-day leadership training at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, which was hosted by the Government of India’s University Grants Commission, she felt confident in her ability to move up the career ladder.

“Many women take a break from their careers to raise their children, struggle to balance their personal and professional lives, or don’t have a support system,” she says. “I want to impart the lessons I learned from my experiences and the training I received. Whenever I get a chance, I get involved.”

Creating lifelong friendships and mentoring students

Thomas joined IEEE in 1990 as a graduate student member and says she continues renewing her membership to stay up to date on emerging technologies, specifically SCADA systems.

“I learned everything about SCADA from a tutorial developed by the IEEE Power & Energy Society. There was no such material available at that time,” she says.

Years later, in 2015, Thomas cowrote Power System SCADA and Smart Grids with her friend John McDonald, whom she met through the organization. McDonald is an IEEE Life Fellow and the founder and CEO of JDM Associates in Duluth, Ga.

Thomas became an active volunteer for the Delhi Technological University’s student branch, where she helped organize technical talks and other events. When Thomas joined Jamia Millia Islamia, she revived the inactive student branch there and served as its counselor for 14 years.

During her 35 years with IEEE, she has served as chair of the Region 10 student activities committee and vice chair of membership development for IEEE Member and Geographic Activities. She was a member of the IEEE Educational Activities and the IEEE Publication Services and Products boards.

“Creating programs that benefit members makes me feel satisfied,” Thomas says. “Volunteering has also boosted my confidence.”

She is also a member of IEEE Spectrum’s editorial advisory board.

Not only does she attribute much of her professional growth to the organization, she also has created lifelong friendships through IEEE, she says. One friend is 2023 IEEE President Saifur Rahman, whom she met in 2000 when he spoke to the Jamia Millia Islamia student branch.

“Our friendship has grown so much that Saifur is like family,” she says.

When Rahman launched the IEEE Technology for a Sustainable Climate Matrix Organization in 2022, he asked Thomas to become a member. She helped create the IEEE Climate Change Collection on the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The following year, she led the development of a climate change taxonomy. The 620 words are included in the IEEE Thesaurus, which defines almost 12,500 engineering, technical, and scientific terms. Now she is working with a team to expand the taxonomy by defining hundreds more climate-change terms.

“You should always do what you enjoy. For me, that’s teaching and volunteering with IEEE,” she says. “I could just be a member, access the technical content, and be happy with just that, but I volunteer because I can do things that help others.”

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