Just over six months after accepting the role, Intel’s chief technology and AI officer, Sachin Katti, has left the company to join OpenAI.

While Katti did not disclose his new job title, in a post on social media platform X, he said he was “excited for the opportunity to work with… the OpenAI team on building out the compute infrastructure for AGI!”

Prior to being appointed chief technology and AI officer, Katti spent four years leading Intel’s networking and Edge group. He is also an adjunct Professor at Stanford University’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EE & CS).

In a statement to DCD regarding Katti’s departure, Intel said: “We thank Sachin for his contributions and wish him all the best. Lip-Bu will lead the AI and Advanced Technologies Groups, working closely with the team. AI remains one of Intel’s highest strategic priorities, and we are focused on executing our technology and product roadmap across emerging AI workloads.”

Katti’s exit marks the fourth loss for Intel of executives involved with the development of the chipmaker’s hardware efforts.

In September, Intel senior fellow and chief architect of Xeon products, Ronak Singhal, left the company after less than a year in the role, following the departure of his predecessor, Sailesh Kottapalli, in January of this year to lead Qualcomm’s data center CPU unit.

Then, late last week, Intel’s VP of data center AI product management, Saurabh Kulkarni, announced he was leaving the company, having accepted the role as VP of data center GPU product management at AMD.

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has overseen a number of personnel changes since taking over the top job in March 2025. His most recent leadership shuffle took place in September and saw him appoint Kevork Kechichian as EVP and GM of Intel’s Data Center Group (DCG). Intel’s DCG was previously overseen by the chief executive of Intel Products, but now reports directly to Tan.

The company has yet to appoint a new chief executive of Intel Products following the recent departure of Michelle Johnston Holthaus, who spent almost 23 years at the company.