Intel CEO’s ‘Amazing Story’ Has Helped Make Him a Billionaire

The 65-year-old technology and venture capital industry veteran has amassed a fortune worth at least $1.1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which is calculating Lip-Bu Tan’s net worth for the first time.

Intel Corp. CEO Lip-Bu Tan
Photographer: Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg

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By Biz Carson and Pui Gwen Yeung

August 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM UTC

Days after calling for the firing of Intel Corp.’s CEO, President Donald Trump changed his mind following a “very interesting” meeting with the executive. “His success and rise is an amazing story,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Monday.

It’s a story that’s also made Lip-Bu Tan amazingly rich.