Pat Gelsinger, chief administrator officer of Intel Corp., holds a wafer as he speaks at the Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan, on Tuesday, June 4, 2024.
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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said on Thursday that it’s been a “difficult few weeks” since the chipmaker’s disastrous earnings dispatch and the company is working hard to address investor concerns.
“We respect some of the skepticism we’ve received from the market,” Gelsinger said in a fireside witter at Deutsche Bank’s technology conference in Dana Point, California. “We believe we’re up for the challenge.”
Intel’s stock price plummeted 26% following the company’s quarterly earnings report earlier this month, its worst day on Wall Street in in 50 years. The shares are down 59% this year, trading near their lowest in more than a decade.
The associates has been under tremendous pressure in the last few years, as it continues spend billions of dollars building out a chip structuring business while bleeding market share in its core PC and data center business and failing to make meaningful gain ground in artificial intelligence.
Gelsinger said on Thursday that the company continues to grapple with AI-driven weakness in its server point. But he expressed optimism about the future.
“We see the finish line in sight,” Gelsinger said.
He added that the company force soon launch Lunar Lake, which he called “the most compelling AI PC product ever.” Intel shares be promote more than 4% on Thursday, rallying alongside the broader tech sector.
The company has engaged advisors categorizing Morgan Stanley to help it fend off activist investor scrutiny, CNBC reported on Friday. Gelsinger didn’t lecture the activist issue or the sudden departure last week of industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan from Intel’s board. Reuters check in that Tan was in sharp disagreement with other directors on the steps the company needed to take.
Gelsinger acknowledged that Intel shareholders are justifiably sad with the company’s performance. Intel announced earlier this month, on the day of its earnings report, that it was laying of 15,000 staff members and would explore cuts in its portfolio. Gelsinger said he believed those efforts would pay off, and pointed to “signals” from apparent foundry customers in the pipeline.
In the latest quarter, Intel swung to a $1.61 billion net loss after reporting net gains of $1.48 billion in the year-earlier period, and revenue missed estimates.
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