Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) fell short of revenue estimates, but topped earnings per share estimates with its first quarter financials. But, Intel remains confident of its ongoing revival and claims it is on track to catch up to its peers, including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (NYSE:TSM) and even the mightly AI chip leader Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA).
First Quarter Highlights
For the March quarter, Intel reported revenue rose 9% YoY to $12.7 billion, slightly below $12.78 billion that LSEG expected. Intel narrowed its net loss from last year's comparable quarter when it lost $2.8 billion, or 66 cents per share to $400 million, or 9 cents per share. Adjusted earnings amounted to 18 cents, surpassing LSEG's estimate of 14 cents.
This was Intel's first report since revealing it had established its chip manufacturing business, Intel Foundry, a separate line item with its own costs and sales. Intel Foundry posted a revenue of $4.4 billion, which Intel noted was a 10% YoY drop, while operating loss amounted to $2.5 billion.
Client Computing sales, Intel's biggest business which is making chips for PCs and laptops, reported revenue rose 31% YoY to $7.5 billion.
Data Center and AI business, which include making central processors for servers, reported revenue rose 5% YoY to $3 billion, while Intel continues to fight for market share against the industry leader, Nvidia.
Intel is working hard to stay relevant in a highly competitive environment.
Intel is investing heavily in AI. Earlier in April, it revealed it will be releasing a new AI processor for servers. Named Gaudi 3, this will be Intel's attempt to go after Nvidia. Intel plans to challenge Nvidia or more precisely, its popular graphic processing units. With Gaudi 3, Intel promised a 50% on average better inference and 40% on average better power efficiency compared to Nvidia-made GPUs. Intel expects its newest offering to bring in more than $500 million in sales during the second half of the year.
Intel claims it's on track to close the gap despite providing a lackluster second quarter guidance.
For the current quarter, Intel guided for earnings of 10 cents per share which was significantly below 25 cents per share that analysts on average expected, while revenue of $13 billion at midpoint was below sales of $13.57 billion that analysts expected.
However, CEO Pat Gelsinger confirmed that Intel remains on track to close the technology gap that is the result of more than a decade of underinvestment and catch up by 2026.
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英特爾公司(納斯達克股票代碼:INTC)未達到收入預期,但其第一季度財務狀況超過了每股收益預期。但是,英特爾仍然對其持續的復甦充滿信心,並聲稱有望趕上同行,包括台積電(紐約證券交易所代碼:TSM),甚至是強大的人工智能芯片領導者英偉達公司(納斯達克股票代碼:NVDA)。
第一季度亮點
英特爾公佈的3月季度收入同比增長9%,至127億美元,略低於LSEG預期的127.8億美元。英特爾縮小了去年同期的淨虧損,當時虧損28億美元,合每股虧損66美分,至4億美元,合每股虧損9美分。調整後的收益爲18美分,超過了LSEG估計的14美分。
這是英特爾自透露已建立芯片製造業務英特爾鑄造業務以來的第一份報告,該業務是單獨的細列項目,有自己的成本和銷售額。英特爾鑄造廠公佈的收入爲44億美元,英特爾指出同比下降10%,而營業虧損爲25億美元。
客戶計算銷售是英特爾最大的個人電腦和筆記本電腦芯片生產業務,其收入同比增長31%,達到75億美元。
包括爲服務器生產中央處理器在內的數據中心和人工智能業務報告收入同比增長5%,達到30億美元,而英特爾繼續與行業領導者英偉達爭奪市場份額。
英特爾正在努力在競爭激烈的環境中保持領先地位。
英特爾正在大力投資人工智能。4月初,它透露將發佈一款新的服務器人工智能處理器。這被命名爲高迪3,這將是英特爾追捕英偉達的嘗試。英特爾計劃挑戰Nvidia,或者更確切地說,挑戰其流行的圖形處理單元。英特爾承諾,與NVIDIA製造的GPU相比,高迪3的推斷力平均提高50%,能效平均提高40%。英特爾預計,其最新產品將在下半年帶來超過5億美元的銷售額。
英特爾聲稱,儘管提供了乏善可陳的第二季度指導,但它有望縮小差距。
英特爾預計本季度每股收益爲10美分,遠低於分析師平均預期的每股收益25美分,而中點收入爲130億美元,低於分析師預期的135.7億美元銷售額。
但是,首席執行官帕特·蓋爾辛格證實,英特爾仍有望縮小技術差距,這是十多年投資不足造成的,到2026年迎頭趕上。
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