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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio news. We are joined by

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Speaker 1: the Intel CEO, Pat Gelsinger, who's come straight from the

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Speaker 1: company's call with analysts. Kindly you are joining us live

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Speaker 1: on Bloomberg Television and Radio, and Pat, thank you for

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Speaker 1: your time in the quarter gone. We were just talking

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Speaker 1: about how you made painful decisions and those showed up

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Speaker 1: as impairment charges and were reflected on the bottom line.

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Speaker 1: To start, could I ask if that's it now that

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Speaker 1: those actions are taken and you now have line of

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Speaker 1: sight on what you want to do, or if there

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Speaker 1: will be more sort of restructure to come.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we worked very hard this quarter to get this

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Speaker 2: done and the people actions the restructuring chargers you'll largely

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Speaker 2: finished this quarter, So it was a challenging quarter that way,

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Speaker 2: but to also deliver better than expect the results if

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Speaker 2: we eliminate those one time chargers and to take our

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Speaker 2: guidance up for Q four. I'm very proud of our

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Speaker 2: team being able to do both of those this quarter.

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Speaker 2: Some of the most difficult restructuring charges maybe in the

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Speaker 2: history of Intel since our memory microprocessor decision almost forty

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Speaker 2: years ago. Getting that done and still beating results and

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Speaker 2: taking the guide up. This was a very significant quarter

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Speaker 2: for our team to execute, very proud of their discipline results, pat.

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Speaker 1: The investor base of cheering you. I'm going on the

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Speaker 1: reaction of your stock in after hours, but a lot

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Speaker 1: of that does seem to be a focus on what

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Speaker 1: you were guiding to in the final three months of

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Speaker 1: this year, away from sort of the financials and numbers,

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Speaker 1: Could you talk a little bit about the product business

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Speaker 1: and the foundry business that gave you some confidence in

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Speaker 1: that guide.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And if we take it apart a little bit,

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Speaker 2: the client business, We've launched our lunar Lake product, the

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Speaker 2: second generation of our AIPC and the AIPC category very solid.

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Speaker 2: We'll be launching the commercial version of that into a

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Speaker 2: good market, we believe next year for a Windows refresh,

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Speaker 2: a corporate refresh cycle, and we start to see more

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Speaker 2: strength in the AIPC category overall, with strong set of

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Speaker 2: use cases and ISVs bringing new software into the marketplace.

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Speaker 2: So we feel good about the client business. Data center

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Speaker 2: quarter on quarter a little bit better than people forecast

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Speaker 2: for that business, and a stronger product line with our

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Speaker 2: Xeon six products now starting to ramp, you know, and

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Speaker 2: finally on the Intel foundry. Quarter and quarter growth in

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Speaker 2: that area and a strong pipeline of external customers. We

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Speaker 2: announced Amazon and two other AT and A customers, some

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Speaker 2: additional advanced packaging customers. So we're starting to see that

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Speaker 2: business come to life. And that's a long term business

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Speaker 2: because when people move designs, it takes several years for

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Speaker 2: major designs to move into our foundry. So we've been

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Speaker 2: at it now a couple of years, and we're starting

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Speaker 2: to see the results of those hard work and getting

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Speaker 2: back to competitive process technology with AT and A. So

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Speaker 2: a very good quarter of operational results.

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Speaker 1: Pat We have a question from our audience, and that

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Speaker 1: question comes from Clem DeLong, who's the CEO and founder

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Speaker 1: of Hugging Face, and he makes the point that on

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Speaker 1: his platform there are many more smaller models now available

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Speaker 1: and it's leading him to have a question for you

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Speaker 1: about Intel's place in the on device trend we're seeing

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Speaker 1: with AI and how you're going to enable more on

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Clem, A great question, and a Hugging

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Speaker 2: Face a great company, and you know, as you think

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Speaker 3: A lot of those will just run on Xeon. We

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Speaker 2: Special accelerator, or it'll be Zeon plus an accelerator.

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Speaker 3: But also then the edge use.

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Speaker 3: Ed.

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Speaker 2: I call it the three laws of the edge, right,

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Speaker 2: the laws of physics, right, the speed of light if

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Speaker 2: I have to go to the cloud, I had time.

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Speaker 2: Your second law is the law of economics, right, it's

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Speaker 2: cheaper to run on my device. And finally, the laws

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Speaker 2: data center. So we see it moving from a cloud

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Speaker 1: Pat I therefore have to ask you about GOUDI. Your

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Speaker 1: AI accelerator did not get the traction that you'd hoped,

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Speaker 1: calendar year. Why is it a use case? Issue that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, two factors that we pointed out. One is is

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Speaker 2: and Gouty three good early indications from the marketplace and

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Speaker 2: its success as we ramp it in twenty five.

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Speaker 1: If you're just joining us on Bloomberg television and radio.

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Speaker 1: We're live with the Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger. Pat Bloomberg's

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Speaker 1: reported that arm and Qualcom, two of your peers, are

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Speaker 1: interested in buying some or part of Intel. Can you

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Speaker 1: confirm whether or not you received a formal offer from

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Speaker 1: them or anyone else, and what Intel's consideration of them

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And obviously there's been rumors and churn in the industry,

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Speaker 2: and I think all of that just indicates how important

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Speaker 2: Intel is to the Intel into the industry structure and semiconductors,

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Speaker 2: and how important those supply chains are.

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Speaker 3: For the world.

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Speaker 2: We don't view any of these rumors as particularly emeritus.

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Speaker 2: We laid out a strategy, we reaffirmed that with our

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Speaker 2: board of directors, and obviously, as we've taken these steps

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Speaker 2: need to be, we have the capacity to go on

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Speaker 2: the journey that we've laid out to produce sustainable profitability

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Speaker 2: and result in shareholder return. So with that, I'm committed,

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Speaker 2: the team's committed, We have the board support for the

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Speaker 2: strategy that we've laid out, and Q three shows that's

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Speaker 1: I've been trying to help our audience understand Intel's historic

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Speaker 1: and current business right the products, but also foundry. And

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Speaker 1: what you said was that twenty twenty six is when

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Speaker 1: those third party customers start to show up. But could

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Speaker 1: you just outline the path to that what you want

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Speaker 1: to hold yourself to for next year in developing that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's a great question ed, and clearly we've

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Speaker 2: started to see that already emerge. And even this quarter

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Speaker 2: we saw quarter and quarter growth of the external foundry business,

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Speaker 2: largely driven by some of those early.

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Speaker 3: Packaging design wins.

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Speaker 2: So these advanced packages are sort of a faster on ramp,

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Speaker 2: but ultimately it's becoming a wayfer foundry for the industry.

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Speaker 2: And as we said, three major design wins this quarter,

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Speaker 2: So we'll be updating, you know, the market as we

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Speaker 2: value of those to the marketplace as well. So we'll

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Speaker 2: give some of those breadcrumbs along the way. But it

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Speaker 2: takes a couple of years for people to move these designs.

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Speaker 2: So key milestones for eighteen A that customers are now

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Speaker 2: beginning those design cycles, the design tools, the design libraries

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Speaker 2: isn't until twenty six that those results start to really

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Speaker 1: That way just days away from an election in this country,

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Speaker 1: and I'm particularly interested in your assessment planning for what

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Speaker 1: might happen to the Chips Act programs. Of course, I

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Speaker 1: don't expect you to know what will happen in the election.

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Speaker 1: You do not have a crystal ball. But former President

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Speaker 1: economic agenda. How are you planning for that? Please?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'd say maybe three different perspectives.

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Speaker 2: Number One, the Chips Act was a bipartisan act and

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Speaker 2: with that strong support from both sides of the aisle.

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Speaker 2: And with that, we believe the importance of that in

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Speaker 2: terms of industrial policy. The semiconductor industry is well supported

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Speaker 2: by Congress and both parties. Second, we are disappointed by

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Speaker 2: how long and how slow. The dispensing of funds has

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Speaker 2: invested thirty billion in capital and we've seen zero dollars

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Speaker 2: for this year. That said, Gil, there's also the Investment

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Speaker 2: I think whoever wins the election, the importance of this industry,

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Speaker 2: the importance of rebuilding this supply chain of manufacturing is

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Speaker 2: well supported. And Intel as a designer, R and D

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Speaker 2: and manufacturer is unique in the United States and in

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Speaker 2: the overall structure of the industry, and we expect the

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Pat. Two quarters ago your CFO told me

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Speaker 1: you were two over indexed to CPU, and we know

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Speaker 1: what happened with Goudi. You made painful decisions in the

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Speaker 2: You know, we laid out a clean sheet pro that

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Speaker 2: modest outlook. But we've also built now a lot of

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Speaker 2: optionality to scale up into the business. We have a

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Speaker 2: into if necessary, and we've made a smaller, more efficient

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Speaker 2: well set up for the future. This was a challenging

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Speaker 2: operational results that exceeded the markets expectations and the increased

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Speaker 1: Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, thank you for joining us here

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Speaker 1: on this special blobot technology straight from the the school.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate your time.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. Ed Like always