Honestly, I don't know enough about the CEO to have opinion one way or the other. I will say that he tends gives very generic answers on the Q&A portion of the ER calls that don't address the questions asked, ha.
As far as company direction, seems like the strategy is to continue with what the previous CEO put in motion: become a leading fabricator with 14a silicon node to give $TSM some competition. Easier said than done. However, things are a bit more interesting since they have Capt. Orange and the US government backing them as well as investment from $NVDA & SoftBank. If they can get the advanced manufacturing going and at scale for outside clients, $INTC could do some numbers. But they aren't there yet.
When? It takes time to scale silicon to high volume production. The node they are banking on, 14a (1.4 nanometers), won't be until '27/'28 and that's barring any setbacks. It's gonna be tough since $TSM, $AMD, and $NVDA aren't going to be sitting still either.
If you can get $INTC cheap and willing to wait a few, I'd say go for it.