Former CEO of Intel, Intel Capital
Search every verified Craig Barrett interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Craig Barrett, former CEO and chairman of Intel, has continued to speak publicly about U.S. competitiveness, education reform, and the semiconductor industry. In a 2025 appearance at the Global Quantum Forum, Barrett discussed the trajectory of Moore’s Law and the development of the quantum computing ecosystem, noting that multiple qubit modalities have continued to progress over 25 years and that the trend of exponential growth in computing is “very convincing.” He also referenced the observation that human beings are “terrible at understanding the impact of exponential technologies.” Across numerous appearances from 2011 to 2021, Barrett has consistently argued that the U.S. K-12 education system is underperforming, citing international test scores and the percentage of students at grade level. He has said that the system lacks accountability and that “there is no silver bullet” to fix it, advocating for high expectations, well-trained teachers, and internationally benchmarked assessments. Barrett has also discussed the importance of STEM education for economic competitiveness, noting that companies like Intel hire the best talent globally and that a U.S. workforce that is not as well-trained as foreign workforces is a disadvantage. He has been involved with the BASIS charter school network in Arizona, which he said has produced four of the top 10 high schools in the country according to certain rankings.
“When I joined Intel 35 years ago, the revenue was $50 million a year. It's now at about a hundred million dollars a day.”
“When does Moore's law end? Precisely June 27th in about 2024 is the end of Moore's law. Until then, think silicon, think integrated circuits as we know them.”
“You can't save your way out of a recession. You can only invest your way out of a recession.”
“The real healthcare crisis in the United States is the United States can't afford the healthcare that it delivers today, let alone an 8 to 10% increase each year.”
“We just have to get our government convinced that the definition of healthcare delivery is healthcare delivery and not a face-to-face visit in the doctor's office. You need a fundamental change with that definition and then use of technology to keep people out of the hospitals.”
“If you look at how the United States ranks in K through 12 education, especially in math and sciences, you find we're kind of in the lower 20% of the industrialized nations. One of the real challenges we have in the US is how to fix the K through 12 education system.”
“It's always better to change before the environment or the marketplace causes you to change — think Kodak or the music industry resisting technological change.”
“There are probably three major companies who will drive that transition and those are the three that have basically already agreed to do it already: Intel, TSMC and Samsung.”
“The reason that the transition from silicon to something else has taken so long is that the cost‑effectiveness of silicon is so great; you won't get off silicon until you run into a brick wall and you can't continue to scale any farther.”
“By the way, I also did look at the rate of inflation of tuition between 1957 and 2019. And it's not 9x. It's 70x.”
“The most common educational background of a Fortune 500 CEO is? Why would I be asking that question in front of a bunch of engineers? It's engineering.”
“You read the newspaper. You watch television. You listen to politicians. You listen to noted people talk about subjects. And 90% of the time, they're talking without any statistical significance.”
“You know 40% of the world's economic growth or so last 50 years has been free compute power, free communications capability, and that network that exists.”
“Who was the first AI innovator in the world? A company called Walmart, a company that is a computer company masquerading as a retailer.”
“You've got to keep Moore's law going. So you've got to find a new switch. I'm becoming to be believe that these planar CMOS transistors... eventually kills you. You've got to have a different switch.”
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It was destination India for President and CEO of Intel Corporation Dr. Craig Barrett as he addressed the Indian Business and Press in Delhi and Mumbai in his address Dr. Barrett revealed the Intel's plans for India which will focus mainly on the internet Dr. Craig Barrett, President and CEO Intel Corporation speaks about the Intel's plans for India. He says, "Our goal here is to make about 30 investments in this calendar year 30 total investments in the range of well over 100 million dollars invested in small companies and these companies come from different backgrounds they can be in serv…
Craig Barrett Talks with Mariette DiChristina on why our education system is broken and what we can do about it.
... and so we have the basis schools I'm working with Phoenix Union School District the superintendent there we're building what's ...
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