Thursday, October 31st 2024
Intel Reports Third-Quarter 2024 Financial Results
Intel Corporation today reported third-quarter 2024 financial results.
"Our Q3 results underscore the solid progress we are making against the plan we outlined last quarter to reduce costs, simplify our portfolio and improve organizational efficiency. We delivered revenue above the midpoint of our guidance, and are acting with urgency to position the business for sustainable value creation moving forward," said Pat Gelsinger, Intel CEO. "The momentum we are building across our product portfolio to maximize the value of our x86 franchise, combined with the strong interest Intel 18A is attracting from foundry customers, reflects the impact of our actions and the opportunities ahead.""Restructuring charges meaningfully impacted Q3 profitability as we took important steps toward our cost reduction goal," said David Zinsner, Intel CFO. "The actions we took this quarter position us for improved profitability and enhanced liquidity as we continue to execute our strategy. We are encouraged by improved underlying trends, reflected in our Q4 guidance."
Q3 2024 Financial Highlights
In the third quarter, the company generated $4.1 billion in cash from operations and paid dividends of $0.5 billion.
Q3 2024 Restructuring and Impairment Charges
In the third quarter, the company made significant progress on its $10 billion cost reduction plan. The plan aims to drive operational efficiency and agility, accelerate profitable growth and create capacity for ongoing strategic investment in technology and manufacturing leadership. These initiatives include structural and operating realignment across the company, alongside reductions in headcount, operating expenses and capital expenditures. As a result of these actions, the company recognized $2.8 billion in restructuring charges in Q3 2024, $528 million of which are non-cash charges and $2.2 billion of which will be cash settled in the future.
Intel's third quarter results were also materially impacted by the following charges:
Business Unit Summary
In October 2022, Intel announced an internal foundry operating model, which took effect in the first quarter of 2024 and created a foundry relationship between its Intel Products business (collectively CCG, DCAI and NEX) and its Intel Foundry business (including Foundry Technology Development, Foundry Manufacturing and Supply Chain and Foundry Services, formerly IFS). The foundry operating model is designed to reshape operational dynamics and drive greater transparency, accountability, and focus on costs and efficiency. In furtherance of Intel's internal foundry operating model, Intel announced in the third quarter of 2024 its intent to establish Intel Foundry as an independent subsidiary. The company also previously announced its intent to operate Altera as a standalone business beginning in the first quarter of 2024. Altera was previously included in DCAI's segment results. As a result of these changes, the company modified its segment reporting in the first quarter of 2024 to align to this new operating model. All prior-period segment data has been retrospectively adjusted to reflect the way the company internally receives information and manages and monitors its operating segment performance starting in fiscal year 2024. There are no changes to Intel's consolidated financial statements for any prior periods.
Intel Products Highlights
Intel's guidance for the fourth quarter of 2024 includes both GAAP and non-GAAP estimates as follows:
Q4 2024 / GAAP / Non-GAAP
Revenue $13.3-14.3 billion
Gross Margin 36.5% / 39.5%
Tax Rate (50)% / 13%
Earnings (Loss) Per Share Attributable to Intel—Diluted $(0.24) $0.12
Reconciliations between GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures are included below. Actual results may differ materially from Intel's business outlook as a result of, among other things, the factors described under "Forward-Looking Statements" below. The gross margin and EPS outlook are based on the mid-point of the revenue range.
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"Our Q3 results underscore the solid progress we are making against the plan we outlined last quarter to reduce costs, simplify our portfolio and improve organizational efficiency. We delivered revenue above the midpoint of our guidance, and are acting with urgency to position the business for sustainable value creation moving forward," said Pat Gelsinger, Intel CEO. "The momentum we are building across our product portfolio to maximize the value of our x86 franchise, combined with the strong interest Intel 18A is attracting from foundry customers, reflects the impact of our actions and the opportunities ahead.""Restructuring charges meaningfully impacted Q3 profitability as we took important steps toward our cost reduction goal," said David Zinsner, Intel CFO. "The actions we took this quarter position us for improved profitability and enhanced liquidity as we continue to execute our strategy. We are encouraged by improved underlying trends, reflected in our Q4 guidance."
Q3 2024 Financial Highlights
In the third quarter, the company generated $4.1 billion in cash from operations and paid dividends of $0.5 billion.
Q3 2024 Restructuring and Impairment Charges
In the third quarter, the company made significant progress on its $10 billion cost reduction plan. The plan aims to drive operational efficiency and agility, accelerate profitable growth and create capacity for ongoing strategic investment in technology and manufacturing leadership. These initiatives include structural and operating realignment across the company, alongside reductions in headcount, operating expenses and capital expenditures. As a result of these actions, the company recognized $2.8 billion in restructuring charges in Q3 2024, $528 million of which are non-cash charges and $2.2 billion of which will be cash settled in the future.
Intel's third quarter results were also materially impacted by the following charges:
- $3.1 billion of charges, substantially all of which were recognized in cost of sales, related to non-cash impairments and the acceleration of depreciation for certain manufacturing assets, a substantial majority of which related to the Intel 7 process node, based upon an evaluation of current process technology node capacities relative to projected market demand for Intel products and services;
- $2.9 billion of non-cash charges associated with the impairment of goodwill for certain reporting units - primarily the Mobileye reporting unit - as well as certain acquired intangible assets; and
- $9.9 billion of non-cash charges related to the establishment of a valuation allowance against U.S. deferred tax assets.
Business Unit Summary
In October 2022, Intel announced an internal foundry operating model, which took effect in the first quarter of 2024 and created a foundry relationship between its Intel Products business (collectively CCG, DCAI and NEX) and its Intel Foundry business (including Foundry Technology Development, Foundry Manufacturing and Supply Chain and Foundry Services, formerly IFS). The foundry operating model is designed to reshape operational dynamics and drive greater transparency, accountability, and focus on costs and efficiency. In furtherance of Intel's internal foundry operating model, Intel announced in the third quarter of 2024 its intent to establish Intel Foundry as an independent subsidiary. The company also previously announced its intent to operate Altera as a standalone business beginning in the first quarter of 2024. Altera was previously included in DCAI's segment results. As a result of these changes, the company modified its segment reporting in the first quarter of 2024 to align to this new operating model. All prior-period segment data has been retrospectively adjusted to reflect the way the company internally receives information and manages and monitors its operating segment performance starting in fiscal year 2024. There are no changes to Intel's consolidated financial statements for any prior periods.
Intel Products Highlights
- Intel announced plans with AMD to create the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group, bringing together leaders from across the industry to help shape the future of x86. The Ecosystem Advisory Group is focused on simplifying software development, ensuring interoperability and interface consistency across vendors and providing developers with standard architectural tools and instructions. Broadcom, Dell, Google, HPE, HP Inc., Lenovo, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat have signed on as founding members.
- CCG: Intel continues to lead the AI PC category and is on track to ship more than 100 million AI PCs by the end of 2025. In September, Intel launched its Intel Core Ultra 200V series processors, code-named Lunar Lake, delivering several more hours of battery life and gains in performance, graphics and AI. This month, Intel launched the new Intel Core Ultra 200S processors, code-named Arrow Lake, that will scale AI PC capabilities to desktop platforms and usher in the first enthusiast desktop AI PCs.
- DCAI: Intel launched Intel Xeon, doubling the performance of the prior generation with increased core counts, memory bandwidth, and embedded AI acceleration. Intel also launched its Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerators, delivering twice the networking bandwidth and 1.5x the memory bandwidth of its predecessor for large language model efficiency. IBM and Intel announced a global collaboration to deploy Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerators as a service on IBM Cloud, aiming to help more cost-effectively scale enterprise AI and drive innovation underpinned with security and resiliency.
- NEX: Intel achieved a significant design win earlier this month with KDDI, a major global telecom, announcing its selection of Samsung's vRAN 3.0 solution powered by 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with Intel vRAN Boost.
- Intel's fifth node in four years, Intel 18A, will complete a historic pace of design and process innovation, returning Intel to process leadership. Intel 18A is healthy and continues to progress well, and the company's two lead products, Panther Lake for client and Clearwater Forest for servers, have met early Intel 18A milestones ahead of next year's launches.
- Intel and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are finalizing a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar commitment to expand the companies' existing partnership to include a new custom Xeon 6 chip for AWS on Intel 3 and a new AI fabric chip for AWS on Intel 18A.
- The Biden-Harris Administration announced that Intel was awarded up to $3 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act for the Secure Enclave program. The program is designed to expand the trusted manufacturing of leading-edge semiconductors for the U.S. government and fortify the domestic semiconductor supply chain.
- Intel announced its intention to establish Intel Foundry as an independent subsidiary. This structure provides clearer separation for external foundry customers and suppliers between Intel Foundry and Intel Products. It also gives Intel future flexibility to evaluate independent sources of funding and optimize the capital structure of Intel Foundry and Intel Products.
Intel's guidance for the fourth quarter of 2024 includes both GAAP and non-GAAP estimates as follows:
Q4 2024 / GAAP / Non-GAAP
Revenue $13.3-14.3 billion
Gross Margin 36.5% / 39.5%
Tax Rate (50)% / 13%
Earnings (Loss) Per Share Attributable to Intel—Diluted $(0.24) $0.12
Reconciliations between GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures are included below. Actual results may differ materially from Intel's business outlook as a result of, among other things, the factors described under "Forward-Looking Statements" below. The gross margin and EPS outlook are based on the mid-point of the revenue range.
32 Comments on Intel Reports Third-Quarter 2024 Financial Results
i can't see a future where x86 starts becoming more interesting in a way that more industries will want to adopt it, (every other big player is working on their own chip.) and users all start to buy new x86 devices in a way that makes it possible for AMD to double their earnings.
Nor do i see AMD suddenly introducing a new kind of chip where it can bring the heat to nvidia with. Depends on the wider economy, if for some reason sanctions on China and Russia are lifted things might be OK for nvidia and AMD.
Intel needs an other year
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/intel-acquires-asmls-entire-2024-stock-of-high-na-euv-machines/
High-NA will allow INTC to leap frog TSMC for a few generations.
There is some risk:
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/asml-loses-usd75-7-billion-market-cap-from-updated-sales-projections-likely-due-to-lower-demand-from-china-and-delayed-intel-fab
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-begins-groundwork-on-magdeburg-chip-fab-despite-13-remaining-regulatory-and-environmental-objections
But their software stack (ROCm?) is not on par with CUDA, so that its holding them back.
Again, assuming the few reports are correct, since I personally have seen very little confirming that or saying that much more.
Going back to AMD, they are overvalued because they keep failing to take advantage of their ....advantages. And time is ticking. Consider Intel fixing it's factory problems and Panther Lake is a beast. Consider Nvidia getting in the laptop/handheld/mini PC even desktop business, with full motherboards/ARM CPUs/SOCs option for Windows on ARM and future Nvidia GPU models selling at a discount on their ARM platform, compared to the models selling for use on the X86 platform. Consider Microsoft switching to Intel or Nvidia for their next XBOX. AMD could be having to deal with much worst conditions in 2-3 years from now. Investors where hopping to see AMD skyrocketing with EPYC, now with Instinct. They did become bigger with EPYC, but at the same time Intel came out with hybrid CPUs and stopped them in retail. They got the chance to start winning market share in gaming with a very good RX 6000 series, only to spill the milk with RX 7000. Their gaming revenues is a joke going back I don't know how many years, maybe even at the pre consoles era. They keep getting more competitive in AI, only to come out and say that they can't produce enough to cover demand. And even in integrated graphics and handhelds, their Z2 series for handhelds looks like a refresh, not a good jump ahead. They seem to have hit a ceiling with their iGPUs and do nothing to fix that. No Infinity Cache, no Sideport Memory or something to help their iGPUs to remain clearly ahead of Intel, to avoid having tomorrow to face a much stronger option from Qualcomm, or Mediatek, or Nvidia.
There is huge mismanagement in AMD, or lack of vision, fear maybe of ending up with huge inventories that they can't sell, meaning they are losing their chances out of fear. They don't book enough capacity to be able to take advantage of their good fortunes and when they have a good product in the market they prefer to see it's price getting inflated than flood the market and grab market share. We seen it in the past when Ryzen 5000 series was a success and prices gone up bacause they couldn't or didn't wanted to cover all the demand, we see it when mining craze could offer them the chance to win gamers, instead they followed Nvidia's game with higher prices, we see now that they are moving prices of X3D models up, we see their repetable stupidity of pricing their new hardware at high MSRP prices and then let the market deside if it will pay those prices or if they will have to do huge discounds just 2 months after the product release (Ryzen 9000).
While I love Su for turning around AMD, she is not capable of making AMD a huge company. She is like that coach that takes a team from near dissaster and makes it competitive, but is incapable of pushing that team in a position to try to win the championship.
Remember that Intel got into this mess in the first place by trying to do a large leap forward with their 10nm node without using EUV. The end result was a massive delay of at least 3 years on that node (original date = 2016, actual date of production = Sept 2019).
One point I will agree, they need to be more aggressive and even stop being so "nice" if needed.