It’s no secret that Intel has been struggling on the AI front—its laggard status helped to fell CEO Pat Gelsinger two months ago—but the company made the extent of the problem crystal-clear on Thursday.
Intel shares rose 1.7% premarket on Friday as the chipmaker's quarterly revenue beat low expectations and investors focused on its search for a new CEO to steer the company through one of its most difficult periods.
Intel is effectively killing Falcon Shores, its next-generation GPU for high-performance computing and AI workloads.
Intel lost a mere $126 million quarterly, on $14.3 billion in revenue.
Less than three months since Intel was awarded $7.68bn in milestone-based federal grants, the company has received $2.2bn of that allotment.
A report last month said its 18A process, which was supposed to be a "turning point" for Intel Foundry, is only achieving 10% yield rates, which industry site wccftech says makes "it impossible for the semiconductor to reach mass-production stages."
Intel stock is struggling for direction Friday after the chipmaker reported a fourth-quarter beat but gave weak guidance. Here's what Wall Street has to say.
But if you work in a large organization or you're an IT administrator, the bifurcated approach continues. Microsoft announced some business-only versions of the Surface Pro tablet and the Surface Laptop last year that continued to use Intel processors, and today it's announcing two more, this time using Intel's Lunar Lake-based Core Ultra CPUs.
Although Intel has yet to announce who will help produce the processors, TSMC already works with Intel to manufacture Arrow Lake chips.
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On Jan. 30, Microsoft showed off the latest Surface for Business Copilot+ PCs, Surface Laptop 7 and Surface Pro 11. Both will be on store shelves Feb. 18. Just a day earlier, the company announced all users of the Microsoft Copilot AI assistant will be able to toggle on OpenAI’s o1 model for slower, more “thoughtful” responses.