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Speaker 2: Shares of Intel are just surging as we speak right now.

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Speaker 2: Taking a look at shares in the after hours, they

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Speaker 2: were up as much as fifteen percent. This after the

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Speaker 2: company gave a fourth quarter revenue forecast slightly above estimates.

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Speaker 2: It sparked optimism that it's capable of reclaiming some lost

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Speaker 2: market share. Shares are just absolutely surging right now. Remember

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Speaker 2: shares down going into this print, close to sixty percent.

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Speaker 2: We got with us Ed Ludlow joining us from our

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Speaker 2: San Francisco bureau. I know he's looking closely at these

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Speaker 2: results because he's got a chat with Pat Gelsinger coming

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Speaker 2: up at six pm Wall Street Time, a special edition

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg Originals. We'll get to that in just a minute. First, though,

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Speaker 2: Ed expectations were pretty low going into this print.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's a lot to unpick here.

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Speaker 3: It's not straightforward because in the core to gone, Intel,

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Speaker 3: which was previously like one of the world's leading chip makers,

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Speaker 3: has given us a mixed bag. Its data centerships business

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Speaker 3: did better than expected, but it's PC business where it

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Speaker 3: has historically been the leader did worse. The answer to

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Speaker 3: that is customers had inventories and they worked through backlogs.

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Speaker 3: And when we speak to Pat later, I think there's

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Speaker 3: a discussion to be had about the future of Intel

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Speaker 3: and the PC market. But the most important thing to

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Speaker 3: note is the stock is up significantly and after hours,

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Speaker 3: and that is in spite of almost three billion dollars

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Speaker 1: So it's a surprise, a negative surprise.

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Speaker 3: And even so the stock is up significantly because, as

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Speaker 3: you point out, the top line of the story is

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Speaker 3: maybe there's some hope here for Intel.

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Speaker 2: It is there. There's also a headline ed and I'm

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Speaker 2: fast and furious. They're reducing headcount by sixteen five hundred employees.

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Speaker 2: Is that on top of the other headcount productions this year.

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Speaker 3: This is a confirmation of the previously stated plan for

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Speaker 3: Audit Committee of Intel, a section of its board, has

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Speaker 3: approved that plan. So the number is final sixteen thy

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Speaker 3: five hundred staff to be cut. And again I go

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Speaker 3: back to the impairment charges. If you look at the

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Speaker 3: adjusted loss per share in the quarter gone much much

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Speaker 3: a part of that was that the impairment charges it

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Speaker 3: They just hadn't factored that in for this quarter. Intel

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Speaker 3: it's a timing and an accounting issue, which you know

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Speaker 1: There's much more to discuss.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well' speina, much more to discuss. The Intel CEO

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Speaker 2: Pat Gelsinger, who you're going to speak with a little

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Speaker 2: later today, saying in a statement that he intends to

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Speaker 2: keep the company together. Yeah, he says that distinct, but

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Speaker 1: So it's complicated.

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Speaker 3: And first off, the headlines from Pat Gelsinger were a

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Speaker 3: part of a brief conversation that our colleague and King

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Speaker 3: Intel is a chip company. It offers chip products processes

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Speaker 3: But it also has a manufacturing business, which historically the

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Speaker 3: That's kind of reading between the lines because he was

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Speaker 4: Ed. You have to wonder how much patience investors have

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Speaker 4: Tim had mentioned, Intel stock is down almost sixty percent

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Speaker 3: I mean, do we have to wait for those listening

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Speaker 3: At the midpoint of that range, it was just slightly

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Speaker 3: what's the saying, you guys that the investors vote with

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Speaker 3: You've let go of a lot of people canceled a

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Speaker 3: that gives us a lot to ask Pat Gelsinger about

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Speaker 2: Don't give away the questions, ed, I would never ask

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Speaker 2: you to do that, but what is top of mind

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Speaker 2: for you ahead of this conversation, especially given that you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because of the analyst call as well, and you

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Speaker 3: There's definitely a technology to discussion to have here. You know,

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Speaker 3: So when's Intel going to come to the races on that?

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Speaker 3: And in fact, a number of our audience, but also

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Speaker 1: Simple stuff.

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Speaker 4: Ed In just three minutes, we should be getting Apple's

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Speaker 4: earnings reports.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, iPhone sixteen and China very simple, leading product, most

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Speaker 4: Will those iPhone sixteen's are they flying off the shelves?

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Speaker 3: So we've learned in the newsroom a really painful lesson

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Speaker 3: this year, which is treat the third party data with caution.

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Speaker 3: You guys will probably have done it on the show

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Speaker 3: right these stories about some of the market researchers, who

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Speaker 3: a very interesting phenomena happening in China. Apple won't make

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Speaker 3: think is so interesting. Right, You're buying something without having

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So okay, let's talk a little bit about China.

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Speaker 2: Just thirty seconds here, ed because these numbers are coming

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Speaker 2: need to see in China indicate that that Apple is

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Speaker 2: Okay, we're going to get numbers from Apple in just

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Speaker 2: Fourth quarter revenue meets estimates coming in at ninety four

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Speaker 2: fourth quarter coming in below estimates, twenty four point nine

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Speaker 1: That's I'm not done that much.

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Speaker 2: above estimates at forty six point twenty two billion.

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Speaker 2: Weres for forty five billion dollars, fourth quarter Greater China

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Speaker 4: missing estimates nine billion dollars. The MAC revenue seven point

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Speaker 4: seventy four billion, right in line with estimates, and iPad

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Speaker 4: estimates of seven billion. The red headline crossing the Bloomberg

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Speaker 4: missed estimates. It's fifteen point oh three billion versus estimates

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Speaker 4: I'll also add Tim that we are seeing Apple stock

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Speaker 3: It's important because again there's a badge of honor for

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Speaker 3: The iPhone grow in China and all of these things

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Speaker 2: It's notable because it is I believe Luka Maistri's last

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Speaker 3: Yeah, in the quarter, Apple posted sales that were about

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