Pushed or nudged; does it matter? Pat Gelsinger has been escorted from Intel HQ, with the board announcing his effective-immediately ‘resignation’ and a desperate search for someone to right this ship. If you are an Intel RAN customer, it is a good time to start looking for alternatives, as there is a definite sense that something seismic is on the horizon. Salvation is Intel’s white whale, and while Gelsinger’s propensity for motivational bible quotes makes him too homely and clean-cut to match Captain Ahab’s enraged, sullen outlook, the great whale has broken the Pequod’s hull, and Gelsinger has been dragged to the depths – his ivory leg dragging him to the abyssopelagic depths. Was this fate inevitable, regardless of who…