GOOD: Intel’s Incoming CEO Gelsinger Lures Back Engineering Talent.

Sunil Shenoy will rejoin Intel as senior vice president of the Design Engineering group effective Feb. 1, the Santa Clara, California-based company said in a statement Wednesday. When he left in 2014, Shenoy was head of Intel’s platform engineering group, a narrower role to the one he’s assuming now.

Glenn Hinton, a former Intel Senior Fellow who led the development of a key chip design, also returned to the company recently in a senior engineering role. Shenoy and Hinton will report to outgoing CEO Bob Swan until the middle of February, and then to Gelsinger who officially rejoins Intel on Feb. 15.

Gelsinger, who previously spent 30 years at Intel, said he’s bringing back the style of management he learned from the founders, notably Andy Grove. Before Swan, Intel had always been run by home-grown executives who were adherents to Grove’s data-driven decision making and direct, sometimes confrontational, internal communication aimed at ensuring problems were never buried.

Intel’s fabrication prowess was half of its secret sauce, but in the last few years the company’s fabs have fallen a generation or more behind Taiwan Semi.

While it’s nice that TSMC is building a new fab in Arizona, for competitive and national security reasons it’s vital that Intel get its mojo back.

And if that sounds paranoid, well… only the paranoid survive.