Intel Corporation (INTC) — the earnings record

Long reads

• Where to Invest in the AI Chip Constraint ChainDossier · $29 · 3 Mar 202646× Trail P/E 24× Fwd P/E 0.72 PEG 2027 The Equipment Super-Cycle Crests By 2027, the massive capex wave from TSMC, Samsung, Intel, and Chinese fabs translates into peak equipment revenue.
• Who Owns the AI Chip Buildout?Dossier · $39 · 12 Feb 2026Intel foundry execution / talent shortage (~67K workers) / cost overruns 🇨🇳 China Largest consumer (42% of equipment spend).
• Barbell Portfolio — Sizing and Rebalancing the Two LegsStrategy · 23 May 2026The temptation, after a Pattern 03 winner like INTC at +437%, is to add a second methodology — "Pattern 04 — Elon Musk Strategic Authority", "Pattern 05 — Mark Zuckerberg Capex Cycle" — and treat each as if it deserves its own budget.
• Portfolio Construction — The Barbell Architecture, Why the Middle Is DecayStrategy · 23 May 2026Live cohort XIRR was +109% at the dossier's most recent print, with the headline INTC trade running +437% in seven months.
• Portfolio Construction — Build a Barbell · Closelook Heresy IIIHeresy · 16 May 2026Headline trade: INTC +437% in seven months.
• Pattern 03 — NVIDIA Strategic Authority InvestmentReport · 12 May 2026NVIDIA bought INTC common stock at $23.28 per share on September 18, 2025 — a $5 billion direct equity investment paired with x86 / RTX / data-center co-design under NVLink.
• Nvidia’s Equity Stakes — Follow the Wise Men, Pattern 03 PreviewWeekly Signal · 10 May 2026Pattern 03 · Preview INTC since Sept 2025 +437% Full paper Pre-Q1 FY27 (I) The Rule Is Seven Hundred Years Old “Of two equally good solutions, the less complex one is better.” That sentence is roughly seven hundred years old.

Dailies

• AI trade — the labs ask for a slowdown: Kospi −3.3%, SoftBank −11%, Nasdaq futures −1.2%, oil back above $106Morning 10 · 14 Sept 2026Friday was the first gain in five sessions: the S&P 500 rose 0.9% to $764.29 on the tracker, the Nasdaq-100 0.9% to $714.88, the Dow 1.0%, the Russell 2000 0.4%, and the semiconductor ETF rose 1.9% to $527.07 with Marvell +4.0%, Intel…
• AI trade — the pacing call splits tech: chips −5%, software +4.5%, security +12–15%, 10-year hits 5%Midday 10 · 14 Sept 2026The components priced on a race are being sold: Astera Labs −9.9%, Arm −8.9%, SK Hynix’s US line −7.3%, Lam Research −7.2%, Marvell −6.3%, SanDisk −6.3%, Micron −5.6%, Super Micro −5.5%, CoreWeave −5.2%, Intel −5.0%, AMD −4.8% to $491…
• Oil settles at $107.63, the 10-year hits 4.95% and the 30-year 5.36%, its highest since 2007: chips lead a fourth down day, Oracle beats and jumps 4% after hours, Adobe beats and slips — and Asia sells its chipmakers 3% to 7%Morning 10 · 11 Sept 2026Thursday was the fourth losing session in a row for all three US indices — the Dow −0.6% to 52,064, the S&P 500 −0.6% to 7,592, the Nasdaq −0.7% to 26,082, the Russell 2000 −1.0% — and this time the chips led the fall instead of resisting…
• Stocks snap a four-day losing streak as oil slips under $100 and chips bounce 2% — despite core inflation hotter than hoped and Fed hike odds at 82%; Oracle gives back its entire after-hours jumpMidday 10 · 11 Sept 2026The semiconductor ETF is up 2.4% — Marvell +4.7%, Intel +2.9%, Arm +2.6%, AMD +2.1% — while the memory and storage names that led the week are still down: SanDisk −3.4%, Western Digital −2.4%.
• Brent closes above $100 for the first time since July and the 10-year hits 4.86%: Wall Street falls a third day while Cloudflare +10%, Datadog +7% and Meta +7% catch the money the chip leaders gave backMorning 10 · 10 Sept 2026Under the fall, the midday flip held into the close: Cloudflare +10.5% on its OpenAI security service, Datadog +7.2%, Meta +6.6% on its Muse agent, Marvell +4.3%, Astera Labs +4.0%, while Nvidia, Broadcom, TSMC and ASML slipped and AMD…
• Chips lead the market down as oil tops $105 and the 10-year hits 4.92%: Micron −4%, Intel −4%, Nvidia −2.5% — while software posts its first up day in six and Apple gains 3%Midday 10 · 10 Sept 2026The S&P 500 is down 0.4%, the Nasdaq 100 0.7%, the Russell 2000 0.7%, and for the first time in four sessions the chips are falling faster than the market: the semiconductor ETF is down 2.0% with the memory and CPU names that led the week…
• Oil knocks on $100 and Wall Street sells everything but the AI pipe: Intel +9%, Lumentum +11%, Dow −1.2% — Seoul buys the dip and the Kospi is back above 7,000Morning 10 · 9 Sept 2026Intel +9.1% on another CPU price rise, AMD +5.9%, Broadcom +3.0%, and the optical names went vertical — Lumentum +11.0%, Corning +7.6% on an 80-million-mile fibre contract with Verizon, Coherent +7.1% — while Shopify, UiPath and Atlassian…
• Chips up again, software down again — Friday's split is turning into a trendMidday 10 · 8 Sept 2026Second session of the same trade, and it is widening: the optical and hardware names are up 7% to 12%, Intel 9%, AMD through $500, while Shopify falls 7%, Intuit, Workday and Booking 6%, and ServiceNow, Salesforce and Adobe 3% to 4%.