Tan, CEO of INTEL, a Victim of Trump’s Racism
Donald Trump has publicly criticized Intel’s CEO following a report in which it was claimed that Lip-Bu Tan had invested at least $200 million in hundreds of Chinese advanced manufacturing and chip firms. Some of these companies were reportedly linked to the Chinese military.
“The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
Tan was born in 1959 in Muar, Johor, in Malaysia to an ethnic Chinese family in Malaysia. His father was the chief editor of Malaysian Chinese-language daily newspaper Nanyang Siang Pau and his mother was a teacher. Tan was educated in neighbouring Singapore; he graduated from Nanyang University with a bachelor’s degree with a major in physics.
Tan then moved to the United States and completed a master’s degree in nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tan began his doctoral studies in nuclear engineering at MIT.
However, after the 1979 Three Mile Island accident and the subsequent sharp reduction in opportunities in the nuclear industry, Tan left MIT and moved to the University of San Francisco in California, where he graduated with a Master of Business Administration.
He is recognized as a visionary leader who has played a crucial role in shaping the modern tech landscape. Tan’s goal was to be like Thoreau: a “contrarian, rather than just following the trend.”
In February 2004, the Cadence Design Systems board of directors elected Tan to the board. Tan became interim co-CEO of Cadence in October 2008, following the resignation of Michael Fister in October 2008. The Cadence board formally named Tan president and CEO effective January 2009. From 2009 to 2021, he served as the CEO of Cadence Design Systems, a company he is credited with reinventing and leading to significant growth.
During his tenure, Cadence’s stock surged by 3,200%, and it became a key player in the chip design software industry, securing Apple as a major client. His leadership at Cadence earned him the 2022 Robert N Noyce Award, the semiconductor industry’s highest honour. Under Tan’s leadership, Cadence grew its net worth to $1.3 billion by 2012, including $440 million in that year alone (51%).
Cadence also expanded its Shanghai office in 2012. In 2013, Cadence purchased private chip design company Tensilica for $380 million. In November 2017, Tan dropped the title of president while remaining CEO of Cadence. He stepped down as CEO and became executive chairman in 2021. He stepped down from the office of chairman of Cadence in 2023.
In 2017, the analytics firm Relationship Science named him most connected executives in the technology industry garnering a perfect “power score” of 100.
On March 12, 2025, Tan was named CEO of Intel, effective March 18.
Most Chinese media and pundits have praised Tan for his new position. They said Chinese people feel proud that “Chinese faces” (Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, Hock Tan, and Lip-Bu Tan) are now controlling four US chip giants (Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, and Intel, respectively).
Huang (of Nvidia, first to cross the $4trillion mark; now largest in capitalization) and Su (Chair and CEO of AMD) were born in Taiwan, while Hock Tan (CEO of Broadcom, born in Penang) also hails from Malaysia.
In August 2025 President Trump posted on Truth Social that Tan should resign immediately. “The CEO of Intel is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem. Thank you for your attention to this problem!”
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US President Donald Trump has now made a U-turn on his opinion over Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, days after publicly demanding his resignation. Trump said he met Intel’s Lip-Bu Tan along with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. He praised Tan’s achievements and said his cabinet members would work with him and bring him suggestions for the coming week.
Trump praises Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan days after demanding his resignation, calls his success ‘an amazing story’
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He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him. He shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee and overtake thee till thou be destroyed, because thou hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded thee. Deuteronomy 28:43-45
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