Lip-Bu Tan’s base salary for the top post at the chip maker is $1 million a year, compared with the $1.25 million Pat Gelsinger received. The differences don’t end there.

Together, we will work hard to restore Intel’s position as a world-class products company, establish ourselves as a world-class foundry and delight our customers like never before,” Tan said in a letter to Intel employees on Wednesday.

Last week, Intel (INTC) appointed Lip-Bu Tan as its new CEO, and in his message to employees, he talked about creating the “new Intel.” Notably, when his predecessor Pat Gelsinger took office in 2021, he also embarked upon “transforming” Intel under the IDM 2.0 strategy, which in hindsight, we know did not go as planned.