Intel comunica i risultati finanziari del secondo trimestre del 2024; Annuncia $10 Piano di riduzione dei costi miliardari
“Second-quarter results were impacted by gross margin headwinds from the accelerated ramp of our AI PC product, higher than typical charges related to non-core businesses and the impact from unused capacity,” disse David Zinsner, Direttore finanziario Intel. “By implementing our spending reductions, we are taking proactive steps to improve our profits and strengthen our balance sheet. We expect these actions to meaningfully improve liquidity and reduce our debt balance while enabling us to make the right investments to drive long-term value for shareholders.”
Cost-Reduction Plan
As Intel nears the completion of rebuilding a sustainable engine of process technology leadership, it announced a series of initiatives to create a sustainable financial engine that accelerates profitable growth, enables further operational efficiency and agility, and creates capacity for ongoing strategic investment in technology and manufacturing leadership. These initiatives follow the establishment of separate financial reporting for Intel Products and Intel Foundry, which provides a “clean sheet” view of the business and has uncovered significant opportunities to drive meaningful operational and cost efficiencies. The actions include structural and operating realignment across the company, headcount reductions, and operating expense and capital expenditure reductions of more than $10 miliardi in 2025 compared to previous estimates. As a result of these actions, Intel aims to achieve clear line of sight toward a sustainable business model with the ongoing financial resources and liquidity needed to support the company’s long-term strategy.
The plan will enable the next phase of the company’s multiyear transformation strategy, and is focused on four key priorities:
- Reducing Operating Expenses: The company will streamline its operations and meaningfully cut spending and headcount, reducing non-GAAP R&D and marketing, general and administrative (MG&A) to approximately $20 miliardi in 2024 and approximately $17.5 miliardi in 2025, with further reductions expected in 2026. Intel expects to reduce headcount by greater than 15% with the majority completed by the end of 2024.
- Reducing Capital Expenditures: With the end of its historic five-nodes-in-four-years journey firmly in sight, Intel is now shifting its focus toward capital efficiency and investment levels aligned to market requirements. This will reduce gross capital expenditures in 2024 by more than 20% from prior projections, bringing gross capital expenditures in 2024 to between $25 billion and $27 miliardi. Intel expects net capital spending in 2024 of between $11 billion and $13 miliardi. In 2025, the company is targeting gross capital expenditures between $20 billion and $23 billion and net capital spending between $12 billion and $14 miliardi.
- Reducing Cost of Sales: The company expects to generate $1 billion in savings in non-variable cost of sales in 2025. Product mix will continue to be a headwind next year, contributing to modest YoY improvements to 2025’s gross margin.
- Maintaining Core Investments to Execute Strategy: The company continues to advance its long-term innovation and path to leadership across process technology and products, and the increased efficiency from its actions is expected to further support its execution. Inoltre, Intel continues to sustain investments to build a resilient and sustainable semiconductor supply chain in the United States and around the world.
Intel is taking the added step of suspending the dividend starting in the fourth quarter, recognizing the importance of prioritizing liquidity to support the investments needed to execute its strategy. The company reiterates its long-term commitment to a competitive dividend as cash flows improve to sustainably higher levels.
Nel secondo quarto, l'azienda ha generato $2.3 miliardi in contanti dalle operazioni e dividendi pagati di $0.5 miliardi.
Riepilogo unità aziendale
Intel previously announced the implementation of 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 a key component of the company’s strategy and is designed to reshape operational dynamics and drive greater transparency, accountability, and focus on costs and efficiency. 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, la società ha modificato la propria informativa di settore nel primo trimestre del 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
- CCG: Intel continues to define and drive the AI PC category, shipping more than 15 million AI PCs since December 2023, far more than all of Intel’s competitors combined, and on track to ship more than 40 million AI PCs by year-end. Lago Lunare, the company’s next-generation AI CPU, achieved production release in July 2024, ahead of schedule, with shipments starting in the third quarter. Lunar Lake will power over 80 new Copilot+ PCs across more than 20 OEMs.
- DCAI: More than 130 million Intel Xeon processors power data centers around the world today, and at Computex Intel introduced its next-generation Intel Xeon 6 processor with Efficient-cores (E-colori), code-named Sierra Forest, marking the company’s first Intel 3 server product architected for high-density, scale-out workloads. Intel expects Intel Xeon 6 processors with Performance-cores (P-colori), code-named Granite Rapids, to begin shipping in the third quarter of 2024. The Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerator is also on track to launch in the third quarter and is expected to deliver roughly two-times the performance per dollar on both inference and training versus the leading competitor.
- NEX: Intel announced an array of AI-optimized scale-out Ethernet solutions, including the Intel AI network interface card and foundry chiplets that will launch next year. New infrastructure processing unit (IPU) adaptors for the enterprise are now broadly available and supported by Dell Technologies, Red Hat and others. IPUs will play an increasingly important role in Intel’s accelerator portfolio, which the company expects will help drive AI data center growth and profitability in 2025 and beyond. Additionally, Intel and others announced the creation of the Ultra Accelerator Link, a new industry standard dedicated to advancing high-speed, low-latency communication for scale-up AI systems communication in data centers.
Intel Foundry Highlights
- Intel is nearing the completion of its promised five-nodes-in-four-years strategy, with Intel 18A on track to be manufacturing-ready by the end of this year and production wafer start volumes in the first half of 2025. Nel mese di luglio 2024, Intel released to foundry customers the 1.0 PDK for Intel 18A. The company’s first two Intel 18A products, Panther Lake for client—the first microprocessor to use RibbonFet, PowerVia and advanced packaging—and Clearwater Forest for servers, are on track to launch in 2025.
- Ansys, Cadence, Siemens, and Synopsys announced the availability of reference flows for Intel’s embedded multi-die interconnect bridge (EMIB) advanced packaging technology, which simplifies the design process and offers design flexibility. The companies also declared readiness for Intel 18A designs.
- Durante il trimestre, Intel named industry veteran Kevin O’Buckley to lead Foundry Services. The company also recently appointed Dr. Naga Chandrasekaran to lead Intel Foundry Manufacturing and Supply Chain. Their leadership will support Intel’s continued development of the first systems foundry for the AI era.
Other Highlights
Intel announced its second Semiconductor Co-Investment Program (SCIP) accordo, the formation of a joint venture with Apollo related to Intel’s Fab 34 in Irlanda. SCIP is an element of Intel’s Smart Capital strategy, a funding approach designed to create financial flexibility to accelerate the company’s strategy, including investing in its global manufacturing operations, while maintaining a strong balance sheet.Incrociamo le dita che lo vedremo presto 2024 Dividendo
The company announced that its board of directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.125 per azione sulle azioni ordinarie della società, which will be payable Sept. 1, 2024, to shareholders of record as of Aug. 7, 2024.
As noted earlier, Intel is suspending the dividend starting in the fourth quarter.
Prospettive di affari
Intel’s guidance for the third quarter of 2024 includes both GAAP and non-GAAP estimates as follows:
Di seguito sono incluse le riconciliazioni tra misure finanziarie GAAP e non GAAP. Actual results may differ materially from Intel’s business outlook as a result of, tra le altre cose, the factors described under “Dichiarazioni previsionali” sotto. The gross margin and EPS outlook are based on the mid-point of the revenue range.
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