Intel's Pat Gelsinger still can't believe his luck

It won't happen to you every day that your job function changes from Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to general manager of the Digital Enterprise Group. But that's what happened to Pat Gelsinger a few months ago.

You would imagine that somebody who in the past has been involved with designing chips and since worked his way up to the CTO position (by the way, Gelsinger is the youngest vice president in the history of the company) is less than happy with having to worry about pesky details like sales and marketing.

But not Pat Gelsinger. "This is the job I picked," he said on Tuesday at a company event. "We are still a little bit in the honeymoon period. we are gaining momentum. we are getting ourselves more competitive and the future looks great."