<figure id="attachment_3020011" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3020011" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3020011 size-full" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/be10098a-lip-bu-tan-epa-270325.webp" alt="" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3020011" class="wp-caption-text">New Intel boss Lip-Bu Tan reportedly has a stake in hundreds of Chinese advanced-manufacturing and chip firms. (EPA Images pic)</figcaption></figure>
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump demanded today that the new boss of US chip maker Intel resign &#8220;immediately&#8221;, after a Republican senator raised national security concerns over his links to firms in China.
&#8220;The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem,&#8221; Trump posted on his Truth Social platform, a day after senator Tom Cotton said he had written to Intel questioning ties between CEO Lip-Bu Tan and Chinese firms.
Tan &#8220;reportedly controls dozens of Chinese companies and has a stake in hundreds of Chinese advanced-manufacturing and chip firms. At least eight of these companies reportedly have ties to the Chinese People&#8217;s Liberation Army&#8221;, Cotton wrote in his letter, a copy of which he posted on his website.
Cotton also noted Tan&#8217;s role as the previous head of Cadence Design Systems, which he said recently &#8220;pleaded guilty to illegally selling its products to a Chinese military university and transferring its technology to an associated Chinese semiconductor company without obtaining licenses.&#8221;
Tan was head of the company at that time, Cotton said.
The Malaysia-born tech industry veteran took the helm at struggling Intel in March, announcing layoffs as White House tariffs and export restrictions muddied the market.
He has said it &#8220;won&#8217;t be easy&#8221; to overcome challenges faced by the company.
Intel is one of Silicon Valley&#8217;s most iconic companies, but its fortunes have been dwarfed by Asian powerhouses TSMC and Samsung, which dominate the made-to-order semiconductor business.
The company was also caught by surprise with the emergence of Nvidia as the world&#8217;s preeminent AI chip provider.
Intel&#8217;s niche has been in chips used in traditional computing processes, steadily being eclipsed by the AI revolution.

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