By all accounts, Pat Gelsinger is affable, technically sharp, hard-working, and decent. Those who have worked for him praise him as a singularly good manager. In January 2021, when Gelsinger was abruptly named the CEO of Intel, this is more or less all I knew of him — and I found myself urgently needing to learn much more. To understand my urgency, it’s worth rewinding the clock back to late 2019 and the earliest days of Oxide. We knew what we wanted to build, but we had some big (consequential...