Intel Corporation Q1 FY2020 Earnings Call

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Quarter Overview

  • Revenue reached $19.8 billion, up 23% year-over-year, beating guidance by $800 million.
  • EPS was $1.45, up $0.15 versus guidance and significantly higher than Q1 2019.
  • Data-centric businesses: $10.1 billion, up 34% YoY and representing 51% of total revenue (an all-time high).
  • PC-centric business: $9.8 billion, up 14% YoY, driven by strong notebook demand and improved supply.
  • Operating margin expanded 10 points year-over-year to 38%.
  • Free cash flow reached $2.9 billion, up 76% YoY.

Business Context and Key Drivers

  • COVID-19 created major disruptions, but also boosted demand for PCs, cloud services, and network infrastructure due to work-from-home and remote learning trends.
  • Intel continues to operate its factories at high efficiency, maintaining >90% on-time delivery.
  • Strong demand from cloud service providers (+53% YoY) and communication service providers (+33% YoY) helped drive the data-centric segment’s growth.
  • PC demand surged, particularly notebooks (+20% YoY volumes), influenced by remote work and learning trends.

Segment Performance

Data Center Group (DCG)
  • Revenue: $7 billion, up 43% YoY.
  • Platform volumes +27% YoY; ASPs +13% YoY.

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Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the First Quarter 2020 Intel Corporation Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers’ presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, today’s program is being recorded. I would now like to introduce your host for today’s program, Trey Campbell, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir. Trey Campbell: Thank you, operator, and welcome, everyone, to Intel’s first quarter earnings conference call. By now, you should have received a copy of our earnings release and the earnings presentation. If you’ve not received both documents, they’re available on our investor website, intc.com. The earnings presentation is also available in the webcast window for those joining us online. I’m joined today by our CEO, Bob Swan; and our CFO, George Davis. In a moment, we’ll hear brief remarks from both of them followed by Q&A. Before we begin, let me remind everyone that today’s discussion contains forward-looking statements based on the environment as we currently see it and, as such, does include risks and uncertainties. Please refer to our press release for more information on the specific risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially. A brief reminder that this quarter, we have provided both GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures. Today, we’ll be speaking to the non-GAAP financial measur

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