Pat Gelsinger takes sole control of group Another prominent leader of Intel’s server business has left the company, the second such defection in a year, Intel announced Monday.Abhi Talwalkar was named president and chief executive officer of LSI Logic, that company said in a press release Monday. His previous position at Intel was vice president and co-general manager of the Digital Enterprise Group, which is responsible for the development of chips for business PCs, servers, storage, and networking devices.Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager, will assume sole responsibility for the group in the wake of Talwalkar’s departure, Intel said in a press release. He has no plans to hire a replacement for Talwalkar at this time, a company spokesman said. Talwalkar leaves Intel just over a year after he became head of Intel’s server group when Mike Fister left the company to become chief executive officer of Cadence Design Systems Inc. The server business has stumbled since then, enduring a manufacturing glitch during an important chipset launch last August and the loss of the performance crown in the low-end server market to AMD’s dual-core Opteron processors this year. Intel’s Xeon chip will remain a single-core product until late this year or early next year, while AMD’s dual-core server chips were released last month.Gelsinger acknowledged the disparity between his company’s road map and AMD’s product launches in an interview earlier this month, but said that Intel’s customers are unlikely to switch vendors based on the relatively short gap. Still, the server group might see some defections, he said.A January reorganization made Talwalkar and Gelsinger co-leaders of the Digital Enterprise Group, which develops products for business customers. This includes desktop PCs, low-end Xeon servers. high-end Itanium servers, storage equipment, and networking devices, among other things. REFERENCES: Intel’s server group hopes customers stay the course, Apr. 29, 2005 Intel’s Fister named CEO at Cadence Design Systems, May 14, 2004 Technology Industry