Sentiment · FY2026 Q2
| Analyst | Firm | Questions (Challenge)Percentage of questions scored as challenging — where the analyst pushed back, pressed for specifics, or questioned management's assumptions. |
|---|---|---|
| Stacy Rasgon | Bernstein | 14 (57%) |
| Tim Arcuri | UBS | 13 (8%) |
| Aaron Rakers | Wells Fargo | 13 (0%) |
| Ross Seymore | Deutsche Bank | 12 (8%) |
| Ben Reitzes | Melius Research | 11 (0%) |
| Vivek Arya | Bank of America | 11 (36%) |
| Joe Moore | Morgan Stanley | 11 (18%) |
| CJ Muse | Cantor Fitzgerald | 11 (9%) |
| Srini Pajjuri | RBC Capital Markets | 6 (0%) |
| Joshua Buchalter | TD Cowen | 4 (0%) |
| Firm | Analysts | Questions (Challenge)Percentage of questions scored as challenging — where the analyst pushed back, pressed for specifics, or questioned management's assumptions. |
|---|---|---|
| Bernstein | 1 | 14 (57%) |
| UBS | 1 | 13 (8%) |
| Wells Fargo | 1 | 13 (0%) |
| Deutsche Bank | 1 |
| 12 (8%) |
| Melius Research | 1 | 11 (0%) |
| Cantor Fitzgerald | 1 | 11 (9%) |
| Bank of America | 1 | 11 (36%) |
| Morgan Stanley | 1 | 11 (18%) |
Intel delivered Q1 revenue of $13.6 billion, $1.4 billion above the guidance midpoint, with non-GAAP EPS of $0.29 versus breakeven guidance as gross margins of 41% beat by 650 basis points on server CPU AI demand acceleration. Intel 18A yield and process execution progressed, while supply constraints continued limiting revenue upside. Management guided Q2 at $13.8-$14.8 billion with $0.20 EPS but provided no full-year guidance, noting rising input costs and PC market weakening expected in the second half.
Innovation & R&D | Capex Investment | Competitive Dynamics | Demand | Margin | Cloud & AI | Supply Chain | Capital Allocation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024Q4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 4 | |
| 2025Q1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025Q2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 2025Q3 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025Q4 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
| 2026Q1 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
| '24Q4 | '25Q1 | '25Q2 | '25Q3 | '25Q4 | '26Q1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Innovation & R&D | 4 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 6 |
| Capex Investment | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 3 |
| Competitive Dynamics | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 6 |
| Demand | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 |
| Margin | 6 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Cloud & AI | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Supply Chain | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 4 | |
| Capital Allocation | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| Quarter | Revenue | Rev YoY | EPS | EPS YoY | Gross margin | Op margin | Net margin | FCF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 Q4 | $14.26B | -7.4% | $-0.03 | -104.6% | 39.2% | 2.9% | -0.9% | $-2.67B |
| FY2025 Q1 | $12.67B | -0.4% | $-0.19 | -111.6% | 36.9% | -2.4% | -6.5% | $-4.37B |
| FY2025 Q2 | $12.86B | +0.2% | $-0.67 | -76.3% | 27.5% | -24.7% | -22.7% | $-1.50B |
| FY2025 Q3 | $13.65B | +2.8% | $0.90 | +123.2% | 38.2% | 5.0% | 29.8% | $121M |
| FY2025 Q4 | $13.67B | -4.1% | $-0.12 | -311.0% | 36.1% | 4.0% | -4.3% | $800M |
| FY2026 Q1 | $13.58B | +7.2% | $-0.73 | -284.2% | 39.4% | -23.1% | -27.5% | $-2.54B |
| FY2026 Q2 | $16.13B | +25.4% | $-2.16 | -222.4% | 40.4% | 11.1% | -68.4% | $4.35B |
Management’s own words, often on a non-GAAP, constant-currency, or adjusted basis — so these can differ from the GAAP figures above (e.g. constant-currency revenue growth excludes currency swings).
What INTC and other companies said about each other on FY2026 Q1 earnings calls — extracted verbatim from public transcripts. Mentions from the newest quarter are a Pro feature.
“You talked about some of the strategic investments that you've made into Anthropic and potentially OpenAI, [ CoreWeave ] as well but also partners, Intel, Nokia, Synopsys.”
Analyst notes Intel among NVIDIA's strategic investments/partners, referencing NVIDIA taking a stake to grow its ecosystem position.
“As far as the market share numbers, AMD has 50, Intel has 50 and we have 50.”
Arm names Intel among the x86 incumbents in the data-center CPU share debate as it argues Arm will take the largest share by CPU type by decade-end.
“Intel was public about increasing their metrology usage as you heard on their call.”
KLA notes Intel publicly discussed increasing its metrology usage to lift yield on existing capacity, a positive process-control demand read-through and a sign of Intel investing in prior-node output.
“So in the last 6 months, as you know, on the memory SSD price grow so much, double, triple, more than triple and some CPU shortage, especially from Intel.”
Super Micro flags CPU supply shortages, especially from Intel, over the past six months, a negative read on Intel's supply availability.
“In addition, we are working closely with Intel and Arm on the development of upcoming Xeon 6+ platforms and a new addition to our portfolio, including Arm AGI GPU-based solutions.”
Super Micro is co-developing upcoming Xeon 6+ platforms with Intel, indicating continued reliance on Intel's next-gen server CPUs.
“we acquired the photonics business from Intel a few years ago”
Jabil acquired Intel's silicon photonics business, which now underpins Jabil's co-packaged optics and silicon photonics capabilities for AI data center interconnect.
“Snapdragon X2 delivers the full agent experience end-to-end and outperforms Intel's [indiscernible] Lake by nearly 30%.”
Qualcomm claims its Snapdragon X2 PC platform outperforms Intel's competing chip by nearly 30%.
“So Intel is excited to partner with us on some of the core manufacturing technologies. So we plan to use Intel's 14A process, which is state-of-the-art and in fact, not yet totally complete.”
Tesla plans to use Intel's state-of-the-art 14A process for its Terafab chip initiative, a manufacturing-technology partnership that positions Intel Foundry as a partner for Tesla's future AI silicon.
“We are actually pleased with our discussions with Intel, with Lip-Bu and team on 18A and especially on 14A.”
Cadence reports progress engaging Intel Foundry on 18A and 14A nodes, implying Intel is investing more in 14A IP/EDA readiness ahead of customer wins.
“On Intel specifically, they came to us with a need, we solved it as principal. And as their financial position evolved, they repaid the financing, netting a $3 billion gain for us and our clients.”
Intel was an Apollo financing client that repaid its financing as its financial position improved, netting Apollo and clients a $3 billion gain, a positive read on Intel's recovery.
“I think Google yesterday said they would launch Axion and connect it with every TPU.”
An analyst notes Google's Arm-based Axion CPU paired with its TPUs as a competitive read-through against Intel server CPUs.
“Recently, we heard Amazon talk up their Graviton option.”
An analyst cites Amazon's in-house Arm-based Graviton CPU as a competitive alternative to Intel server CPUs.
“the competition against Arm because NVIDIA is planning to launch a stand-alone Vera CPU Rack”
An analyst flags NVIDIA's planned standalone Vera Arm-based CPU as a competitive threat to Intel's server-CPU franchise.
“We recently announced our partnership with SpaceX, xAI and Tesla to support Terafab.”
xAI is named as a partner in Intel's Terafab silicon-manufacturing initiative.
“We recently announced our partnership with SpaceX, xAI and Tesla to support Terafab.”
SpaceX is named as a partner in Intel's Terafab silicon-manufacturing initiative.
“We recently announced our partnership with SpaceX, xAI and Tesla to support Terafab.”
Tesla is named as a partner in Intel's Terafab initiative to refactor silicon process technology; positive read-through on Tesla's chip-supply ambitions.
“In terms of your second question about Arm, clearly, we know Arm a lot, a lot of respect for them. Rene is a good friend of mine.”
Intel discusses Arm as an architecture competitor with a licensing model that is increasingly building its own silicon; neutral competitive framing.
“So we're going to have Coral Rapid, have the multithreading that we can compete effectively with AMD.”
Intel frames AMD as its principal x86 server-CPU competitor and expects Coral Rapids multithreading to close the gap.
“TSMC is a very important partner for us. Morris and C.C. have decades of friendship.”
Intel confirms TSMC remains an important external-foundry supplier and it will use a multi-foundry approach; positive volume read-through for TSMC.
“Lastly, DCAI also established a multiyear collaboration with SambaNova to design a next-generation heterogeneous AI inference architecture combining SambaNova's RDUs and Intel Xeon 6 processors.”
Intel and SambaNova established a multi-year collaboration on heterogeneous AI inference combining SambaNova RDUs with Intel Xeon 6.
“In addition, Xeon 6 was selected as the host CPU for NVIDIA's DGX Rubin NVL8 systems, and Xeon remains the most deployed host CPU due to its industry-leading memory, security and networking orchestration.”
NVIDIA selected Intel Xeon 6 as the host CPU for its DGX Rubin NVL8 systems, a design win read-through tying NVIDIA's flagship AI systems to Intel CPUs.
“Within the quarter, DCAI signed multiple long-term agreements, including Google, supporting our view that the current business momentum is sustainable.”
Google signed a multi-year long-term agreement to buy Intel Xeon and ASIC products, a positive demand read-through for Google's data-center CPU sourcing from Intel.
| Company | Score | Trend | Rev YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
INTC Intel Corporation | 6 | +7.2% | |
| ADI Analog Devices | 9 | +30.4% | |
| ALAB Astera Labs, Inc. Common Stock | 9 | +93.4% | |
| AMAT Applied Materials | 5 | -2.1% | |
| AMD Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 9 | +37.9% | |
| ARM Arm Holdings | 7 | +20.1% | |
| ASML ASML Holding | 9 | +13.3% | |
| AVGO Broadcom Inc. | 9 | +29.5% | |
| KLAC KLA Corporation | 7 | +11.5% | |
| LRCX Lam Research | 9 | +23.8% | |
| MCHP Microchip Technology | 9 | +35.1% | |
| MPWR Monolithic Power Systems | 10 | +26.1% | |
| MRVL Marvell Technology | 10 | +22.1% | |
| MU Micron Technology, Inc. | 9 | +196.3% | |
| NVDA NVIDIA Corporation | 10 | +73.2% | |
| NXPI NXP Semiconductors | 7 | +12.2% | |
| ON ON Semiconductor | 6 | +4.7% | |
| Q Qnity Electronics, Inc. | 10 | +17.6% | |
| QCOM Qualcomm | 3 | -3.5% | |
| SWKS Skyworks Solutions | 3 | -1.0% | |
| TER Teradyne | 9 | +87.0% | |
| TXN Texas Instruments | 9 | +18.6% |