She Was No. 2 at Intel. Now She’s Taking Aim at the Chip Maker. Ms. James later decided to seek a chief executive spot elsewhere, opting in early 2016 to first become an operating executive at Carlyle. Ms. James, who annunced in 2015 that she would resign from Intel, on Monday revealed a start-up backed by the private equity firm Carlyle Group to sell chips to handle calculations in servers. “I think they’re the best in the world at what they do,” Ms. James said of Intel. Ms. James, 53, who received business degrees from the University of Oregon and started in marketing jobs at Intel, aided the server push by encouraging development of software needed to thrive in the market, among other efforts.
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