Michael Dell congratulates Gelsinger as he takes on Intel role

Chipmaker’s new CEO outlines his vision for company’s future in a memo to employees

Michael Dell has tweeted his support to new Intel boss Pat Gelsinger as he re-joins the chipmaker as CEO this week.

Dell Technologies is the majority owner of virtualisation vendor VMware as a result of its acquisition of EMC. Gelsinger has been its chief exec since 2012, until his move to Intel this week.

"Thank you for your strong leadership as CEO of VMware during the past eight years," Dell tweeted Gelsinger from his personal account.

"I look forward to continuing to work with you in your new role."

Dell Technologies has traditionally only used Intel chips but has recently been using other chipmaker's products in their machines, notably using AMD processors in its latest VxRail products.

Intel has seen smaller rivals AMD and NVIDIA eating into its share of the market in recent years as it has suffered product delays and chip shortages.

Gelsinger seeks to rectify this under his leadership, reiterating to employees the four priorities for the company that he outlined last month on a quarterly call with analysts.

His four focuses areas are: Intel to be the leader in every category in which it competes, execute "flawlessly" to its commitments, innovate with "boldness and speed" and review its culture in order to attract and retain the best staff.

"I am confident that we can be the world's leading semiconductor company in a landscape of tremendous change and set a course for a new era of innovation and technological leadership," he wrote in the memo.

"Technology has never been more important for humanity than it is now. Everything is becoming digital, with four key superpowers - cloud, mobility fueled by 5G, artificial intelligence and the intelligent edge - set to transcend and transform the world.

"Intel is the only semiconductor company that has the depth and breadth of intelligent silicon, platform, software, architecture, design, manufacturing and scale that our customers need to capitalise on these opportunities and fuel their next-generation innovations."