The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights Intel, AMD and NVIDIA
Chicago, IL – July 2, 2025 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Intel Corporation INTC, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. AMD and NVIDIA Corp. NVDA.
Here are highlights from Tuesday's Analyst Blog:
Intel Collaborates with Exostellar to Scale AI Initiatives Faster
Intel Corporation has partnered with Exostellar to make enterprise-grade AI infrastructure accessible in a cost-effective manner. Intel's partnership with this leading innovator in autonomous compute orchestration and cloud optimization, which leverages AI and ML technologies, is likely to deliver an end-to-end solution with support for quota enforcement, dynamic borrowing, fair queuing and priority-based scheduling. This, in turn, will bring cloud-like agility and efficiency to on-premises or hybrid infrastructure for a more competitive AI hardware ecosystem.
The collaboration combines Intel Gaudi AI accelerators with Exostellar's advanced Kubernetes-Native AI Orchestration, Multi-Cluster Operator to enable customers to maximize utilization, control access and streamline the compute resources across teams and projects. It aims to empower organizations to build and scale AI initiatives faster, more efficiently and more cost-effectively by developing an open ecosystem with multi-vendor support that boosts ROI while maintaining flexibility.
The Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerator is poised to power AI systems with remarkable efficiency. Equipped with up to tens of thousands of accelerators interconnected through Ethernet, the Gaudi 3 accelerator promises a substantial boost in AI training and inference capabilities, enabling global enterprises to deploy AI at scale with ease. It boasts impressive performance metrics, offering faster time-to-train and superior inference throughput. Furthermore, Intel's commitment to open, community-based software and industry-standard Ethernet networking ensures flexibility and scalability for enterprises, allowing them to seamlessly integrate AI solutions tailored to their specific needs.
INTC Focuses on AI Chips, 5N4Y
Intel remains on track with its 5N4Y (five nodes in four years) program to regain transistor performance and power performance leadership by 2025. Intel Xeon platforms have reportedly set the benchmark in 5G cloud-native core with substantial performance and power-efficiency improvements, additional power-saving capabilities and easy-to-deploy software. This has triggered healthy demand trends from major telecom equipment manufacturers and independent software vendors to optimize and unleash proven power savings for a more sustainable future.
Intel has witnessed healthy traction in AI PCs, which have taken the market by storm and remain firmly on track to ship more than 100 million by the end of 2025. Panther Lake – the chip based on Intel 18A and the architectural successor to the well-received Lunar Lake – is slated to be launched in the second half of 2025, while Clearwater Forest – the first Intel 18A server product – is likely to be unveiled in the first half of 2026.
Price Performance
Despite AI chip traction, Intel has plunged 27.9% in the past year against the industry 's growth of 24.3%, lagging its peers Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. and NVIDIA Corp.. While Advanced Micro has declined 13.6%, NVIDIA has gained 28.8% over this period.
Estimate Revision Trend of INTC
Earnings estimates for Intel for 2025 have moved down 84.9% to 28 cents over the past year, while the same for 2026 has declined 68.2% to 74 cents. The negative estimate revision depicts bearish sentiments for the stock.
INTC Plagued by Margin Woes
Although Intel has scaled its AI footprint, it seems to lag NVIDIA on the innovation front, with the latter's H100 and Blackwell GPUs being runaway successes. Leading technology companies are reportedly piling up NVIDIA's GPUs to build clusters of computers for their AI work, leading to exponential revenue growth.
An accelerated ramp-up of AI PCs further affected the short-term margins of Intel as it shifted production to its high-volume facility in Ireland, where wafer costs are typically higher. Margins were also adversely impacted by higher charges related to non-core businesses, charges associated with unused capacity and an unfavorable product mix.
US-China Trade Tariffs Hurt INTC
China accounted for more than 29% of Intel's total revenues in 2024, making it the single largest market for the company. However, the communist nation's purported move to replace U.S.-made chips with domestic alternatives significantly affected INTC's revenue prospects. The directive to phase out foreign chips from key telecom networks by 2027 underscores Beijing's accelerating efforts to reduce reliance on Western technology amid escalating U.S.-China tensions.
Moreover, weaker spending across consumer and enterprise markets, especially in China, resulted in elevated customer inventory levels, resulting in soft demand trends. Strict export control measures are further likely to affect the market dynamics, leading to below-par revenue growth in the near term.
End Note
Intel has been facing challenges due to the disruptive rise of over-the-top service providers in this dynamic industry. Price-sensitive competition for customer retention in the core business is expected to intensify in the coming days. Aggressive competition is likely to limit the ability to attract and retain customers and affect operating and financial results.
The road ahead for Intel is bumpy and strewn with daunting challenges, and how it navigates these roadblocks in the coming days remains to be seen. Intel carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) at present. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
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