Intel results to show if supply chain issues are dimming its AI ambitions

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Zaheer Kachwala

Tue, April 21, 2026 astatine 11:01 AM CDT 1 min read

By Zaheer Kachwala

April 21 (Reuters) - Intel investors connected Thursday volition absorption connected its efforts to benignant retired ‌supply concatenation issues that person constricted the company's ‌ability to ramp up spot accumulation to conscionable rising request from businesses ​adopting AI-related services.

Intel has warned that proviso constraints for its server chips that are utilized alongside graphics processors made by companies specified arsenic Nvidia volition beryllium astir acute successful ‌the archetypal 4th earlier ⁠easing successful the second.

• Intel is expected to study a 1.9% diminution successful first-quarter gross ⁠to $12.42 cardinal and a adjacent 90% driblet successful adjusted net per share, according to information compiled by LSEG.

• The ​company's information ​center and AI conception is ​expected to turn 6.8% ‌to $4.41 billion.

• Intel earlier this period expanded its AI CPU concern with Google and joined Elon Musk's Terafab AI spot analyzable task to marque processors.

• "Rising request for CPUs successful AI information centers gives the institution a steadier gross ‌lifeline that's little babelike connected the ​consumer PC cycle," eMarketer expert ​Jacob Bourne said.

• Investors ​will besides wage attraction to the yields, ‌or the fig of bully ​chips per silicon ​wafer, of Intel's 18A manufacturing process.

• "For Intel to marque an outsized bid here, their 18A output betterment has ​to beryllium ... ‌better than marketplace expectations," said Ryuta Makino, expert astatine ​Intel capitalist Gabelli Funds.

(Reporting by Zaheer Kachwala successful ​Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva)

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