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Guidance / Outlook

INTEL CORP · 2026-01-23 · Importance 20 · Surprise 24

Management states it expects the 2025 industry trends—particularly rapidly rising compute demand driven by AI, continued PC refresh cycles including AI-enabled PCs, and demand for geographically diversified supply chains—to continue in 2026 and future years. Intel expects AI adoption across industries to drive demand across a spectrum of workloads (generative AI, inference, agentic AI and physical AI) spanning data centers, network environments, enterprises, clients and edge devices. The company frames this outlook as underpinning its multi-year strategy to invest in CPUs, GPUs, ASICs, xPUs and foundry capabilities. This forward-looking view guides capital allocation, product roadmaps and the emphasis on heterogeneous compute and advanced packaging.