[1] Otellini graduated from St. Ignatius College Preparatory and held a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of San Francisco earned in 1972.

From 1998 to 2002, he was executive vice president and general manager of the Intel Architecture Group, responsible for the company's microprocessor and chipset businesses and strategies for desktop, mobile and enterprise computing.

[12] In 2007, Otellini announced plans to build a $3 billion semiconductor manufacturing plant in the port city of Dalian, China.

[5] Nevertheless, in hindsight, Otellini has made the strategic mistake of ignoring the mobile processor market, and also did not develop credible technology to counter ARM-based architecture.

These missteps, combined with missed product cycles under Otellini's successors, would come back to haunt Intel over a decade later.