The board gave him the option to retire or be fired....... he chose "retirement."
He made some comments about ,iirc, Chinese/ TSMC...... that ruffled some feathers. In response they took away discounts they were offering Intel so their costs damn near doubled......
So this is a signal to them to try to get the discounts back, but also they want to split the company into the foundry, chip making /tsmc competitor and then the design group and then there's another company they own Altera that may be sold off and can go ipo on its own....