Thursday, January 26th 2023
Intel Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2022 Financial Results, Largest Loss in Years
Intel Corporation today reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2022 financial results. The company also announced that its board of directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.365 per share on the company's common stock, which will be payable on March 1, 2023, to shareholders of record as of February 7, 2023.
"Despite the economic and market headwinds, we continued to make good progress on our strategic transformation in Q4, including advancing our product roadmap and improving our operational structure and processes to drive efficiencies while delivering at the low-end of our guided range," said Pat Gelsinger, Intel CEO. "In 2023, we will continue to navigate the short-term challenges while striving to meet our long-term commitments, including delivering leadership products anchored on open and secure platforms, powered by at-scale manufacturing and supercharged by our incredible team.""In the fourth quarter, we took steps to right-size the organization and rationalize our investments, prioritizing the areas where we can deliver the highest value for the long term," said David Zinsner, Intel CFO. "These actions underpin our cost-reduction targets of $3 billion in 2023, and set the stage to achieve $8 billion to $10 billion by the end of 2025."
Business Unit Summary
Intel previously announced several organizational changes to accelerate its execution and innovation by allowing it to capture growth in both large traditional markets and high-growth emerging markets. This includes the reorganization of Intel's business units to capture this growth and provide increased transparency, focus and accountability. As a result, the company modified its segment reporting in the first quarter of 2022 to align to the previously announced business reorganization. All prior-period segment data has been retrospectively adjusted to reflect the way the company internally manages and monitors operating segment performance starting in fiscal year 2022.Business Highlights
Intel's guidance for the first quarter of 2023 includes both GAAP and non-GAAP estimates. Reconciliations between GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures are included below.
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"Despite the economic and market headwinds, we continued to make good progress on our strategic transformation in Q4, including advancing our product roadmap and improving our operational structure and processes to drive efficiencies while delivering at the low-end of our guided range," said Pat Gelsinger, Intel CEO. "In 2023, we will continue to navigate the short-term challenges while striving to meet our long-term commitments, including delivering leadership products anchored on open and secure platforms, powered by at-scale manufacturing and supercharged by our incredible team.""In the fourth quarter, we took steps to right-size the organization and rationalize our investments, prioritizing the areas where we can deliver the highest value for the long term," said David Zinsner, Intel CFO. "These actions underpin our cost-reduction targets of $3 billion in 2023, and set the stage to achieve $8 billion to $10 billion by the end of 2025."
Business Unit Summary
Intel previously announced several organizational changes to accelerate its execution and innovation by allowing it to capture growth in both large traditional markets and high-growth emerging markets. This includes the reorganization of Intel's business units to capture this growth and provide increased transparency, focus and accountability. As a result, the company modified its segment reporting in the first quarter of 2022 to align to the previously announced business reorganization. All prior-period segment data has been retrospectively adjusted to reflect the way the company internally manages and monitors operating segment performance starting in fiscal year 2022.Business Highlights
- Intel continues to make progress with its goal of achieving five nodes in four years and is on track to regain transistor performance and power performance leadership by 2025. Intel 7 is now in high-volume manufacturing for both client and server. Intel 4 is manufacturing-ready, with the Meteor Lake ramp expected in the second half of 2023. Intel 3 continues to progress and is on track. On Intel 20A and Intel 18A, Intel's first internal test chips, and those of a major potential foundry customer, have taped out with products undergoing fabrication.
- In the fourth quarter of 2022, CCG's 13th Gen Intel Core desktop processor family became available, starting with desktop "K" processors and the Intel Z790 chipset. Additionally, in December 2022, in partnership with ASUS, Intel officially set a new world record for overclocking, pushing the 13th Gen Intel Core i9-13900K past the 9 gigahertz barrier for the first time ever.
- In January 2023, DCAI launched its 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (formerly code-named Sapphire Rapids) with the support of customers and partners such as Dell Technologies, Google Cloud, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo, Microsoft Azure, NVIDIA and many others, and is ramping production to meet a strong backlog of demand.
- NEX achieved a second consecutive year of double-digit revenue growth, hitting key product milestones with Intel IPU E2000 (Mount Evans), Raptor Lake P&S, Alder Lake N and Sapphire Rapids.
- AXG delivered record revenue for both the fourth quarter and full year. In January 2023, AXG launched the Intel Xeon CPU Max Series (formerly code-named Sapphire Rapids HBM) and the Intel Data Center GPU Max Series (formerly code-named Ponte Vecchio). Intel also announced that with AXG's flagship products now in production, the company is evolving AXG's structure to accelerate and scale its impact and drive go-to-market strategies with a unified voice to customers. Accordingly, the consumer graphics teams will join CCG, and the accelerated computing teams will join DCAI.
- IFS achieved record revenue for both the fourth quarter and full year, with active design engagements with seven of the 10 largest foundry customers. It also added a leading cloud, edge and data center solutions provider as a customer to Intel 3.
- Intel completed the IPO of Mobileye, which achieved record revenue for both the fourth quarter and full year of 2022. Mobileye continued to execute well in its core advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) business, as it launched systems into 233 distinct vehicle models in 2022.
Intel's guidance for the first quarter of 2023 includes both GAAP and non-GAAP estimates. Reconciliations between GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures are included below.
45 Comments on Intel Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2022 Financial Results, Largest Loss in Years
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I'm overall optimistic on the company, they are going through a rought patch but they have many advantages (some of them not exactly fair but yay for capitalism) that put them in very solid ground and aren't going out of business anytime soon
7.6$ billion in profit for the year? So back to pre-covid profits??
www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/50863/000005086321000009/q420_earningsrelease.htm
But to understand their earnings, you have to understand this expense, Intel's R&D in billions. They are spending about 1/3 more on this now than they were 3 years ago. Intel could chop off that extra 1.5B/quarter and instantly increase their annual profit by 50%. That would be stupid ofc, but that's exactly what some of their CEOs from 7 or 8 years ago would have done.
Also understand, this is entirely separate from the cost of building Fabs.
As long as they keep paying those sweet divideds the stock bleed will continue to be a bit limited at least
I'm very impressed with Intel's 12th (and now 13) Gen processors though. They are beating AMD (TSMC) even with a much larger node. In laptops this year (particularly gaming) Intel is premium and AMD is 2nd tier... and that is a space where power efficiency really matters. I expect market share to begin to reverse for consumer products, but maybe not data center right away. If Intel gets the next node off on schedule they will be clear leaders, and should be able to grow market share again.
AMD will be in trouble soon IMO. They were starting to make some headway with laptop GPUs (in the mid-tier), but that seems to be reversing this year. I don't know what the issue is exactly, but they've always struggled with drivers. Nvidia toys with them as usual; they just make their GPUs good enough to beat AMD (I'm guessing they have good spies), but unlike Intel's recent past, they are always prepared to up the ante in a hurry if AMD makes a significant advance. The RTX 4000 GPUs are a good example. Nvidia could have given us a huge generational boost, but they are holding back and banking. The Vram, bandwidth and shaders are a big reduction vs 3000 for all but the very top card (which is mega $$$). They are heavily leveraging the smaller node, frequency boost, and DLSS3 to still deliver a nice fps/$ improvement anyway. Very calculated.
I do kinda hate Intel and Nvidia, but think they will do well vs the competition, and put AMD in a tough place soon.
Market has been flooded with to many lakes compared to amd releases
So buyers are laked out, two chips per year almost three is a crazy ass childs game against amd single release cycle.
Then you get a meager intel gpu.
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-28/goldman-morgan-stanley-ceos-take-pay-cuts-as-others-get-raise-despite-layoffs
At the same time, AMD is still suffering from growth pains (needing to strategically spend their money where it's needed, vs just going all-out, and right now that market is the very lucrative enterprise/corporate sector) and long-held myths among the crowd that bias the average person away from AMD products, to say nothing of rivals manipulating deals and making it hard for AMD to be offered on the same brand platforms, often relegated to a secondary, slightly inferior one, esp. in laptops.
On the other hand, AMD's purchase of Xilinx could help them further rise with the right strategies, as Xilinx IP would let AMD quickly offer more counters in old entrenched spaces such as networking, aerospace, cellular/tel/comm, industrial, and automotive, given the pervasiveness of Xilinx IP within those sectors, while also helping to boost AMD's own products. I recall AMD teasing the possibility of FPGAs added to their GPUs and CPUs as a way to add more flexibility in things such as AI learning or a reprogrammable element set up for each client. In addition, replacing a bunch of 3rd party IP used in their products with Xilinx options could actually save them money, and allow them to field more custom solutions since more of it is in-house.
In the near term, AMD is likely to continue suffering in the consumer space while they focus on the enterprise and prosumer space, but their goal is taking over the much more lucrative markets that Intel has been trying to hold (and as of last year, was still losing ground to AMD in). With Intel now dropping yet another area that they mismanaged (networking switches), AMD could easily move into that market with leveraged Xilinx IP. They even mentioned sometime last year that they were looking into entering the networking sector via Xilinx, and we might one day see AMD NICs and switches in the near future.
Ol' Patty's 25% cut is nothing more than virtue signalling because as the article notes, ol' Gelsinger's annual salary is less than 1% of his total compensation package, and the cut is les than 0.2% of that. In contrast, for the ordinary plebs: Yeah, that's the absolute best way to attract and retain talent at a time when your company is drowning due to lack of it.
The same goes for "talent". Stock options are their real pay.
www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2022/11/intel-cuts-ceo-stock-payouts-amid-layoffs.html
www.theregister.com/2022/11/23/intel_gelsinger_shares/