Barrett succeeds Grove at Intel

On May 20, Craig Barrett will succeed Andy Grove as the president andchief operating officer of Intel Corporation, the company that suppliesmicroprocessors to the vast majority of computers on the planet. Grove,who will continue as chairman, will direct Intel's strategic planning forthe future while Barrett oversees the day-to-day operations.

"Craig has been the architect of Intel's operations throughout the last decade," Grove said. "Craig is the guy who keeps the Intel machine running."

Barrett said that he would continue Intel's strategy to target a vast arrayof computing devices, including everything from the smallest handheld up tomulti-processing super-servers. At the low-end, Intel will develop itsproducts around the StrongARM architecture it licensed recently from Advanced RISC Machines (ARM). He added that Intel's long-term plan includesa slew of devices that aren't necessarily microprocessors.

"There's a lot of stuff in the hardware other than the processor," Barrettsaid.

Andy Grove was one of the original founders of Intel in 1968, while Barrett joined the company in 1974