Intel Shares Freefall on Q2 Miss, Massive Cost-Cutting Plan 8/2/24
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🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We're watching shares of Intel. They are now on pace for their worst day in 50 years, |
| 0:04.8 | plunging more than 25 percent after laying out a $10 billion cost cutting program that will |
| 0:09.7 | include thousands of layoffs and a halt on on dividend payments in today's tech check |
| 0:13.8 | segment are John Ford on what he's hearing after speaking with Intel CEO |
| 0:18.8 | Pat Gelsinger just one disappointment after another and this one feels like a big |
| 0:23.2 | oh it's a big one Sarah yeah let's talk about it I did speak with Intel CEO Pat |
| 0:27.3 | Gelsinger last night moments after he got off the analyst call |
| 0:30.1 | cn't be see nbiches the only broadcast network he's spoken with. I asked him how it's possible that |
| 0:34.7 | with all of the data center spending all the cappex commitment from major cloud |
| 0:38.8 | providers so little of it could be flowing through to Intel and he said that spending is far more |
| 0:43.9 | heavily weighted toward AI even than he expected. |
| 0:47.0 | Overall John the story is the AI build-out so I'll say everybody is still pretty focused on their AI and |
| 0:55.2 | accelerator investments and the CPU portion is more modest. We do see some |
| 1:00.7 | early breadcrumbs of enterprise cycles. We do expect some early breadcrumbs of enterprise cycles. |
| 1:04.0 | We do expect some growth there. |
| 1:05.8 | Our products are getting stronger, |
| 1:07.9 | but the story is still one where the data center in the cloud |
| 1:10.9 | is driven by the AI investments as the primary ones. |
| 1:15.0 | Obviously for us we need to get our AI accelerators, our Gauti3. |
| 1:19.1 | It'll launch this coming this quarter we believe allows us to start participating more effectively in that area and we're seeing |
| 1:25.5 | some good early signs of customers there. So we do see some of those benefits but fundamentally |
| 1:31.1 | we're not yet getting the full benefits of that in our |
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