There was an article about how Paul Otellini was going to fire Kraznich but Kraznich turned the tables around and got Otellini to resign instead.
The same author was talking about how Kraznich's team was going for false diversity. That is, pretend you are all about diversity but really you are going the opposite. Kraznich fired many women in the management team, some of which were said to be real good at their jobs, but he probably didn't want anyone against him in any way.
Really, anyone else might have been better. Kraznich happened because the previously expected successor to Otellini, Sean Maloney, had serious health problems. The decision became between Kraznich and David Perlmutter. It was said the BoD thought they wanted an American and Perlmutter wasn't so Kraznich got it instead. Then Perlmutter got sacked once Kraznich was CEO.
But then again, Intel didn't have an excellent CEO since Craig Barrett. That's like 25 years of problems compounding on each other. At least Barrett and Otellini were sane.