"Pat Gelsinger" is the Chief Executive Officer of VMware as of September 2012. Prior to becoming CEO of VMware he was President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure Products at EMC Corporation/EMC. Before joining EMC, he was the first Chief Technology Officer of Intel Corporation and Senior Vice-president and General Manager of the Digital Enterprise Group at Intel.

As CTO of Intel he also invented the conference "Intel Developer Forum" as a counterpart to Microsofts "WinHEC".

Gelsinger is also author of Balancing Your Family, Faith, & Work and coauthor of Programming the 80386.

In September 2009, Pat Gelsinger left Intel to join EMC.

In late 2012, Gelsinger was named by industry analysts as a possible successor to Steve Ballmer as the CEO of Microsoft.

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The result of all [these innovations] will be what we think of as the Giga PC.

We're going to ramp it like crazy and deliver it in volume. As a result, it's a better product, and people buy better products.

That's ten times bigger than the world's largest supercomputer ... for less than 1 percent the cost.

Perhaps the current downsizing of the U.S. IT industry is not a temporary thing. Maybe we are headed for becoming a second-class citizen in the world of IT.

We want to embed just a little bit of the IT manager directly into each piece of silicon we develop and ship into the marketplace.

They are two brands that intersect.

Windows XP and the Pentium 4 processor will enable [the Giga PC].

Perhaps the current downsizing of the U.S. IT industry is not a temporary thing.

We see a fundamental shift away from IT investment in the U.S.,