Intel

Looks like Intel's getting a big chunk of our taxpayer money, but now the government owns a huge piece of the company. It's a lose-lose situation; this deal could hurt Intel's foreign business and tank my stocks, all because of some corrupt government policies. Capitalism, what's that? https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/...

Looks like Intel's turnaround efforts just got a major vote of confidence. SoftBank has announced a $2 billion investment in the chipmaker, buying common stock at $23 per share. This move gives SoftBank a stake of just under 2% and signals belief in Intel's future in U.S. semiconductor manufacturing. This news, coupled with rumors of a potential 10% stake from the Trump administration, is big, big news for INTC. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/18/intel-is-ge...

Pretty crazy how Trump is straight up manipulating the market through Intel. Now he's apparently "looking for customers" for Intel's 18A process. Possibly even forcing US companies to adopt the upcoming 14A process. What kind of "free market" is that? https://www.economist.com/business/2025/08/...

Trump calls for Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to resign immediately (!) Republican Senator Tom Cotton questioned Tan's ties to Chinese companies [that he is invested in], to "express concern about the security and integrity of Intel's operations and its potential impact on U.S. national security". Intel really just cannot catch a break these days ... https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/intel-ceo-t...

U.S. is reportedly forcing TSMC to buy 49% stake in Intel to secure tariff relief for Taiwan. Taking corrupt government to a whole new level with this one. And right after defunding the CHIPs act, too. Pick a side, FFS. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Desperate-mea...

Fitch downgrades Intel's credit rating due to demand challenges. The new rating is BBB, just two notches above junk status. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/05/intels-cred...

Intel shares its foundry has ZERO significant customers in 10Q filing. https://www.intc.com/filings-reports/all-se... > We have been unsuccessful to date in attracting significant customers to our external foundry business. Can't blame the potential customers. After the catastrophe of 10nm and 17nm and now the cancellation of 20A, who on earth would believe Intel is capable of delivering 14A in any reasonable time or capacity?

Intel keeping things spicy on the weekend ... by announcing the layoffs of 2,400 workers in Oregon. https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2...

Intel CEO says it's too late for the company to catch up with the competition in artificial intelligence. It's too bad Intel spent the last decade or so spending all their money on dividends and buybacks instead of actually investing in research and development. Imagine if they had developed GPGPU technology instead of nVidia, or chiplet CPUs instead of AMD. Or performant mobile processors instead of ARM / Apple. Oh well. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/...

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan now saying Intel will potentially "write-off" the 18A process and instead focus on their 14A chipmaking process. This is in an effort to win major customers over with promises being made about the 14A process, which is still in early development phase. Am I missing something or has Intel been kicking the can on delivering a solid product for almost a decade now? Ever since the Skylake launch in 2016 Intel hasn't delivered a product based on a new process without some kind of major upset. https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-con...

Intel will lay off up to 20% of its factory workers, according to a leaked internal memo. https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2... That amounts to over 10,000 jobs.

Intel no longer approving new products that do not promise at least 50% gross profit. This seems completely absurd, almost no products outside of software return margins like that, and even then, there's no magical crystal ball to predict how well the market will receive a product. But hey, maybe Lip-Bu Tan knows something nobody else does... https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/...

Some of Intel's top talent have left to join a startup creating the "biggest, baddest CPU". https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2... Too bad Intel themselves can't find it in themselves to support this kind of innovation internally.

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Softban... Intel is collaborating with Softbank (the investment firm) on a new type of large-capacity memory for use in semiconductors used in AI applications. They claim, "with this memory, AI calculations will be processed instantly, and power consumption will be reduced by half compared to current products." Of course, this magical product will not be ready until the end of the decade, according to Intel. Probably sometime after Intel finally goes bankrupt, given the current pace of things.

Ever since nixing Pat Gelsinger and the ensuing CEO shakeup it has been a relentless stream of bad news. Entire divisions being axed, massive layoffs hitting tens of thousands of employees, and a stock chart that looks like the heart monitor of a dead corpse. Is this actually a turnaround strategy? Or is the company just done for? The delayed factory builds alone are enough to bankrupt this company. What was once described as "financial horsepower" is more like digging for scraps at this point. AMD and Nvidia are both absolutely dominating the market both technically and financially, and Intel has no response but to find more ways to cut costs. No idea what Intel can do from here, it looks to me like it's in a death spiral.

Some pretty sweet new GPUs coming from Intel. The Arc Pro B60 and B50 graphics processing units for workstations and AI inference capabilities, expanding the existing Arc Pro lineup with larger memory configurations and improved software support. https://newsroom.intel.com/client-computing... But the real question remains, will it run Crysis?

Lip-Bu Tan, Intel's new CEO, just proudly proclaimed that Intel controls 55% of the data center market. Of course, that's down from >90% just ~5 years ago. Never let the truth get in the way of your own fictional narrative.