Intel CEO Bob Swan and senior vice president of network platforms Sandra Rivera.
Intel CEO Bob Swan and senior vice president of network platforms Sandra Rivera.
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Intel CEO Bob Swan interview — Only the strong assets survive

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Only the strong assets survive. That’s what I said after Bob Swan, the newly appointed CEO of Intel, talked about his view of paranoia in business — a legacy made famous by early Intel CEO Andy Grove, who believed “only the paranoid survive.”

I sat down with Swan and Intel executives Sandra Rivera (senior vice president of network platforms group) and Dan McNamara (senior vice president of programmable solutions group) last week, along with five other reporters. It was the first chance I had to sit down with Swan, who served as chief financial officer at Intel for a couple of years before he was named Intel’s acting CEO last year (after prior CEO Brian Krzanich left amid a personnel scandal). On January 31, Swan was named permanent CEO.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.