Intel Corporation Q2 FY2022 Earnings Call

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Overall Results & Context

  • Q2 2022 results were significantly below expectations due to macroeconomic weakness, customer inventory reductions, supply chain disruptions, and Intel-specific execution challenges.
  • Revenue: 15.3 billion dollars, down 15 percent vs Intel’s original Q2 guidance; below-year prior numbers in key segments like Client Computing Group (CCG) and Data Center and AI (DCAI).
  • Gross margin: approximately 45 percent, six hundred basis points below guidance. EPS: 0.29 dollars, down sharply vs expectations.
  • Intel expects Q2/Q3 to represent the financial bottom, with sequential improvement beginning in Q4 driven by seasonal strength, normalization of inventory, pricing actions, and new product ramps.

Key Drivers of Underperformance

  • Macroeconomic deterioration: inflation, rate hikes, war in Ukraine.
  • Unexpectedly large customer inventory corrections, especially in PC OEMs and enterprise customers.
  • COVID-related supply and demand disruptions in China.
  • Execution issues: Sapphire Rapids delays, discrete GPU software stack immaturity, and challenges in AXG and DCAI product rollouts.

Market Commentary & Demand Trends

  • PC TAM now expected to decline about 10 percent in 2022; Intel now aligned with market estimates of 310 to 325 million units.

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Operator: Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Second Quarter 2022 Intel Corporation Earnings Conference Call. [Operator instructions] Please be advised that today’s conference is being recorded. I will now hand the conference over to your speakers today, John Pitzer, Corporate Vice President of Investor Relations at Intel. Please go ahead. John Pitzer: You should have received a copy of our earnings release and the earnings presentation both of which are 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, Pat Gelsinger; and our CFO, Dave Zinsner. In a moment, we’ll have brief remarks from both, followed by Q&A. Before we begin, please note that today’s discussion contains forward-looking statements based on the environment as we currently see it. As such it involves risks and uncertainties. Our press release provides more information on the specific risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially. We’ve also provided both GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures this quarter and will be speaking to the non-GAAP financial measures when describing our consolidated results. The earnings presentations and the release available on intc.com include full GAAP and non-GAAP reconciliations. With that, let me hand it over to Pat. Pat Gelsinger: Thank you, John, and good afternoon, everyone. While we continue to make solid progress on our

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