Intel senior fellow and chief architect of Xeon products, Ronak Singhal, is set to leave the company at the end of the month, after less than a year in the role.

Singhal’s departure was first reported by CRN and has since been confirmed by Intel. He joined the company in 1997 and, during his 28-year career, oversaw the development of Haswell and Broadwell server CPUs and led performance optimization for Intel’s Nehalem and Westmere processors.

He is the second senior fellow and Xeon chief architect to leave the company this year, with Sailesh Kottapalli leaving Intel in January to lead Qualcomm’s data center CPU unit.

The news comes in the same week that the company announced Michelle Holthaus, chief executive of Intel Products, was departing the company after two decades, a career that included a stint as interim co-CEO prior to the appointment of now CEO Lip-Bu Tan.

Tan also announced that Kevork Kechichian would be joining Intel as executive vice president and general manager of Intel’s DCG – formerly known as the Data Center and AI Group before Tan split the group out in April. Kechichian was formerly an executive vice president of solutions engineering at Arm and has also worked at NXP Semiconductors and Qualcomm.

Separately, the South China Morning Post reported that Intel chip architect Su Fei would be leaving the US to take up a full-time professorship at Tsinghua University. According to the report, Su has been appointed the Xing-Hua endowed chair professor at the university’s School of Integrated Circuits.

During his time at Intel, he worked to improve the reliability, security, and long-term performance of processors across every stage of the chip’s lifecycle, from concept to mass production.