Intel CEO responds to Trump’s threat

The lips of the CEO of Intel responded to President Donald Trump’s call for his resignation about the alleged conflict of interests. In a note sent to the employees on Thursday, Tan said that these concerns are based on “wrong information”.

Tan joined the faltering chips maker in March. He was in the middle of trying to return the company to the right track when he found himself in Cross Trump.

Trump wrote in A. “Intel CEO is very conflicting and must be resigned immediately,” Trump wrote in A. Spread the social truth Early Thursday morning.

This position came just one day after Senator Tom Couton from Arkansas Send a message To the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Intel Frank Yery, raises questions about Tan investments in Chinese chips and its alleged relations with the Chinese government and military.

He highlighted the specified concerns about the former role of Tan as Cadence Design Systems, a 13 -year -old position until 2021. In July, the company Admit To violate the US export controls by selling devices and programs to the national defense technology in China without obtaining the required licenses.

Koton also pointed out that Intel received nearly $ 8 billion in the Law of Chips and Sciences and said that the Tan associations “raises questions” about Intel’s ability to harass US taxpayers.

He has note For employees, Tan once again called these allegations.

“I want to be completely clear: more than 40 years in industry, I built relationships all over the world and through our diverse ecosystem – I have always been working within the highest legal and ethical standards,” Tan wrote.

He added that Intel is working with the Trump administration to address “matters that have been raised and make sure they have the facts.”

Only last month, Tan set his plan Reducing the number of employeesReducing spending – including plans to abandon new factories in Germany and Poland – and a new Amnesty International’s strategy to make Intel more competitive with their competitors.

Trump was not strange to business leaders who raised the arm to do what he wanted. In addition to using definitions to push companies to invest more in the United States, Trump also called Wal Mart to Eating the growing costs of definitions And Coca-Cola to switch to Cane sugar Instead of corn syrup. Unfortunately for Tan, he did not do much for a good Trump side. Both other technology executives such as Apple and Openai from Jensen Huang and Amazon Jeff Bezos personally with Trump in the efforts made to pay their business agendas.