Intel CEO Paul Otellini to Retire in May
Intel said that Paul Otellini will retire from his role as CEO in May 2013.
Otellini, 62, was promoted from his position of executive vice president and general manager of the Intel Architecture Group to CEO in 2005.
Intel broke with a tradition of betting on engineers as CEOs for the chipmaker as Otellini holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of San Francisco and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Most notably, the two predecessors of Otellini, Craig Barrett (1998-2005) and Andy Grove (1987-1998), Intel's third employee, were engineers at heart.
Intel did not say who will replace Otellini. "The board of directors will conduct the process to choose Otellini’s successor and will consider internal and external candidates for the job," a statement read. earlier this year, Sean Maloney, the rumored candidate for the CEO, announced his retirement because of health reasons.
Another candidate, Pat Gelsinger, who led Intel's processor designs through their greatest growth period in the 1990s, is now CEO at VMware, but is still believed to be very interested in becoming CEO of Intel. Additional candidates include executive vice president of the Intel Architecture Group, David Perlmutter, as well as executive vice president for Intel Capital, Arvind Sodhani.
We would also expect Otellini to continue a tradition at Intel and phase out his career at the company by remaining on Intel's board of directors for some time.

Anyway, i think Otellini was CTO/COO, and the tradition at intel is to promote COOs to the CEO postion, not engineers.
Also, the article doesn't mention at least three other candidates:
All three are eligible for the CEO's role, and are actually the main candidates according to most people's speculation.
Intel has been doing a great job since.
Haswell will be released about the same time as his retirement. I find it interesting however that he is retiring just as his origional agressive tick tock plan begins winding down (which ends with Broadwell).
It could be that he wrote that origional map because he was planning to retire by that point. But it could also well be that he sees an end up ahead for traditional computing, and he wants to get out now while things are still going rather well, rather than 2-3 years from now when Intel is still selling lower power chips instead of faster chips, and people continue to upgrade out of replacement of systems, rather than upgrading existing systems, and when ARM starts eating into the traditional x86 chip space... It really does seem to look like a good time to get out while the getting is good.
For his replacement, I really hope intel focuses on 2 major fronts:
1) Make Atom what it was supposed to be, as an ARM killer. Give it a real in-house GPU, make it cheap, and make it take over the tablet and phone space. There is a huge market out there, and the latest Atom chips are great on the CPU side, and even have some well priced units... but sorely lacking on GPU performance which is a deal killer for many industries. And Atom chips are tiny. Put it on a modern die process already! The yealds will go through the roof because it is a much simpler chip design compared to the regular offerings, which would put them right in line on the power target, and just a little more expensive than ARM, but adding support for more software/developers/tools which will bring more powerful applications to phones and tablets.
2) Focus again on the enthusiest market. We do not expect a 20% increase in performance every year... but the 5-10% increase in performance we are expecting from here on out is also rather disapointing. I do not mind the cooler more efficient chips that have been coming out... just do not focus on that at the detrement of performance. I understand that the CPU had to lose some weight in the wattage area, but now that we have done that, give me a reason to upgrade in 2-3 years instead of the almost 6 years it took to justify last time.