Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan announced a vision based on customer focus and engineering excellence at the opening keynote of 'Intel Vision 2025' held in Las Vegas, USA on the 31st (local time).

CEO Tan shared his approach and insights to restore Intel’s technology and process leadership, emphasizing that a customer-centric mindset is central to Intel’s strategy to capitalize on future significant software, hardware and foundry engineering opportunities and drive new technology advancements.

“As CEO, my top priority is to spend time with our customers,” said CEO Tan, showing his firm determination. He added, “Intel will be an engineering-centric company, and we will listen to your opinions and actively reflect them to bring innovative solutions to the market that can solve your challenges and lead to your success together.”

CEO Tan pledged to focus on customer centricity and engineering, and to "listen deeply" to the needs of customers and partners. The company said it values dedicated silicon design that supports customers' core workloads by adopting a software-centric design approach.

As Intel embraces AI-based system design, it will accelerate the development of purpose-optimized full-stack solutions and dedicated silicon to restore trust and strengthen ecosystem partnerships.

He also said that he plans to work with the Intel Foundry team to advance their strategy and explore opportunities to drive growth and differentiation to build a world-class foundry. CEO Tan said that Intel’s 18A process technology is on schedule, with first tapeout for external customers imminent.

He added that mass production of the Panther Lake client computing processor is expected to begin in the second half of this year.

CEO Tan emphasized the importance of teamwork and partnerships, and made clear his intention to transform Intel from a simple supplier to a true partner through a collaboration-centered approach. He emphasized that he would forge a new path based on collaboration, humility, and relentless customer-centric thinking under engineer-centered leadership.