Intel Raises $15B In Common Stock Offering

" When they were asked on their July 23rd earnings call about the need to raise capital, which they are doing this morning with their $15B common stock offering, this is how the CFO answered: "we feel like we're in a really good place from a balance sheet perspective. We have over $30 billion of cash. We have a $10 billion revolver. So, we've got $40 billion of liquidity… Obviously, the fact that revenue and profitability and EBITDA are all expanding helps a lot in terms of the cash flow that throws off to the business.

And additionally, we have… roughly, call it $10 billion of what it's called non-core assets that can still be monetized on the balance sheet… And we have seen, by the way, our customers willing to invest with us. And we've had pre-pays from customers… that has enabled us to unlock capacity that's helped us. " My belief of what "super-successful" means is they are close to signing up one or more major foundry customers, which is very capital intensive, and they need a lot more capacity to ramp it. I expect more details from industry sources to come out over time given a press release is unlikely given the secrecy demanded by most customers.

I believe with Intel, there are multiple ways to win: 1) higher ratio of CPUs to GPUs in Agentic, 2) advanced packaging and 3) US national champion in foundry. "