Intel's Khosrowshahi: 'We're Leading the Way' in A.I. Processors

Khosrowshahi is a co-founder, along with Naveen Rao, another Intel executive, of a startup called Nervana Systems. I profiled Nervana in October of 2015 for a Barron's cover story about how the rise of cloud computing and artificial intelligence was changing the objectives, and the design, of silicon. After that article, in which it was posited that Intel's microprocessor business might be in trouble, Rao and Khosrowshahi's company was bought by Intel, in August of last year, for terms that were not disclosed, but speculated by the New York Times's Steve Lohr to be north of $400 million. Rao and Khosrowshahi have both been on the road in support of Intel this year. Rao was at Intel's Xeon unveiling in July in New York.