Nick Bastone, provided by Published 5:46 pm CST, Monday, January 14, 2019 Intel Intel veteran Aicha Evans has been named the new CEO of the self-driving car company Zoox, according to the company on Monday. Evans will assume her new role as Zoox's CEO on February 26. Evans comes from a 12-year career at Intel, where she was serving as Chief Strategy Officer. The company has 700 current employees and is valued at $3.2 billion after a $500 million funding round in July. Evans replaces former Zoox CEO and co-founder Tim Kentley-Klay, who left the company last year under mysterious circumstances. Intel veteran Aicha Evans has been named the new CEO of the self-driving car company Zoox, the company announced on Monday. Evans spent 12 years at Intel, most recently as its chief strategy officer. Zoox — a Foster City, California based startup founded in 2014 — is building both self-driving software and its own vehicle with the … [Read more...] about A 12-year Intel veteran will become the new CEO of the self-driving car company Zoox, which lost its previous leader under mysterious circumstances (INTC)
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A 12-year Intel veteran will become the new CEO of the self-driving car company Zoox, which lost its previous leader under mysterious circumstances
Intel veteran Aicha Evans has been named the new CEO of the self-driving car company Zoox, according to the company on Monday. Evans will assume her new role as Zoox’s CEO on February 26. Evans comes from a 12-year career at Intel, where she was serving as Chief Strategy Officer. The company has 700 current employees and is valued at $US3.2 billion after a $US500 million funding round in July. Evans replaces former Zoox CEO and co-founder Tim Kentley-Klay, who left the company last year under mysterious circumstances. Intel veteran Aicha Evans has been named the new CEO of the self-driving car company Zoox, the company announced on Monday. Evans spent 12 years at Intel, most recently as its chief strategy officer. Zoox – a Foster City, California based startup founded in 2014 – is building both self-driving software and its own vehicle with the vision of creating fully autonomous, zero-emission fleet focused on ridesharing in cities. Zoox has 700 current … [Read more...] about A 12-year Intel veteran will become the new CEO of the self-driving car company Zoox, which lost its previous leader under mysterious circumstances
Intel veteran Aicha Evans named CEO of Zoox
By Levi Sumagaysay | [email protected] | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: January 14, 2019 at 3:06 pm | UPDATED: January 14, 2019 at 3:13 pm Autonomous vehicle startup Zoox on Monday named Intel veteran Aicha Evans its chief executive, replacing the CEO it removed last year. The Foster City startup, which is working on designing autonomous vehicles from the ground up, was founded in 2014 and has more than 700 employees. Evans was at Intel for 12 years, most recently as chief strategy officer. In July, she told this publication that self-driving technology was one important area of focus for Intel. “We thank Aicha for her leadership and many contributions to Intel’s success,” an Intel spokeswoman said Monday. “We wish her well in her new endeavors and look forward to continuing to partner with her and Zoox, which is an Intel customer.” In a statement, Evans said Monday that “Zoox has set itself apart from entrenched players as the only … [Read more...] about Intel veteran Aicha Evans named CEO of Zoox
Autonomous Vehicle Startup Zoox Picks Intel Executive as New CEO
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By Tim Higgins WSJ Mon., Jan. 14, 2019 Autonomous vehicle startup Zoox Inc. has named veteran Intel Corp. executive Aicha Evans its new CEO, recruiting a seasoned manager to replace its ousted founder as the company attempts to reinvent the car. Ms. Evans is chief strategy officer at Intel where she spent the past 12 years in various roles, including as head of the communication and device group overseeing the company’s efforts to sell chips for mobile phones. In 2017, Ms. Evans became responsible for the chip company’s long-term strategy, including a push into autonomous vehicles, after she nearly left amid other management changes. She begins at Zoox on Feb. 26. Her hiring makes Ms. Evans, born in Senegal and raised in Paris, one of the most high-profile black women running a Silicon Valley tech company. She succeeds Tim Kentley-Klay, the co-founder who was removed as CEO by Zoox’s board last August after the company had completed a $500 million … [Read more...] about Autonomous Vehicle Startup Zoox Picks Intel Executive as New CEO
AMD shows off 7nm next-gen chips at CES, aims at Intel and Nvidia
By Sonam Rai and Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices Inc <AMD.O> on Wednesday unveiled its next generation smaller and power-efficient computer chip and a graphics processor, aiming at bigger rivals Intel Corp <INTC.O> and Nvidia Corp <NVDA.O>. Chief Executive Officer Lisa Su, during a keynote address at the ongoing Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, gave a preview of AMD's third-generation Ryzen CPU chips for desktop users. The Ryzen CPU chips will be launched in the middle of this year and will compete with Intel's PC processors. AMD will start shipping its Radeon VII (seven) graphics chips, which compete with Nvidia's gaming chips, from Feb. 7 and the next generation of EPYC server chips in mid-2019, Su said. All the three chips are based on AMD's new 7nm manufacturing technology that packs more transistors on smaller chips and can boost performance at lower power. AMD last year said it would quit trying to develop such advanced … [Read more...] about AMD shows off 7nm next-gen chips at CES, aims at Intel and Nvidia