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Intel is Getting a $2 Billion Investment From SoftBank (cnbc.com)

(Monday August 18, 2025 @11:33PM (msmash) from the searching-for-new-friends dept.)


Intel and SoftBank announced on Monday that the Japanese conglomerate will [1]make a $2 billion investment the embattled chipmaker . SoftBank will pay $23 per share for Intel's common stock. The investment is a vote of confidence in Intel, which has not been able to take advantage of the AI boom in advanced semiconductors and has spent heavily to stand up a manufacturing business that has yet to secure a significant customer.

"Masa and I have worked closely together for decades, and I appreciate the confidence he has placed in Intel with this investment," Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan said in a statement. Intel shares lost 60% of their value last year, their worst performance in the company's more than half-century on the public market.



[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/18/intel-is-getting-a-2-billion-investment-from-softbank.html


headline (Score:2)

by ihavesaxwithcollies ( 10441708 )

Incompetent bank gives incompetent company lots of money.

Re: (Score:2)

by chrisvdb ( 149510 )

Agreed on the sentiment, but calling SoftBank a bank gives them too much credit.

Same reason AMD got bailed out (Score:2)

by rsilvergun ( 571051 )

Nobody wants a single x86 CPU vendor. For all the Doom and gloom Intel is still out selling AMD two to one but that's mostly due to OEM contracts.

And as always if your sale start to drop off there's a real chance Wall Street will just eat you alive.

That was just a story about Kodak talking about going under even though they're profitable. And I remember back in the day when 3dfx went tits up while their cards were flying off the shelves.

If Wall Street smells the slightest bit of weakness like a

Kiss of Death (Score:2)

by JoeyRox ( 2711699 )

When SoftBank invests in your company you might as well shut it down the next day.

Re: (Score:2)

by RitchCraft ( 6454710 )

Yep, they're going to suck that company dry.

Penny change level of investment (Score:2)

by blahbooboo ( 839709 )

SoftBank, the company that invested $16 billion in we work alone. Intels Intel's revenue for 2024 was approximately $53.1 billion and its market cap is over $107 billion. This is a press release for attention, not a significant investment for either company

Split them up already (Score:2)

by Gavino ( 560149 )

I really think intel needs to be taken to with a big meat cleaver, and chopped into two distinct parts - one for chip design, and one for fabs. The poor sod chip designers were held back for years, being tied to intel's inferior process nodes (when compared to the likes of TSMC), whereas AMD were free to get on the cutting edge. Also, if I was Lisa Su from AMD, would I take my advanced CPU designs to TSMC for production, or to a direct competitor like Intel - even if both TSMC and Intel could offer the exac

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