Intel Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2025 Financial Results

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Intel Corporation today reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 financial results.

“Our conviction in the essential role of CPUs in the AI era continues to grow,” said Lip-Bu Tan, Intel CEO. “We delivered a solid finish to the year and made progress on our journey to build a new Intel. The introduction of our first products on Intel 18A – the most advanced process technology developed and manufactured in the United States – marks an important milestone, and we’re working aggressively to grow supply to meet strong customer demand. Our priorities are clear: sharpen execution, reinvigorate engineering excellence, and fully capitalize on the vast opportunity AI presents across all of our businesses.”

„We exceeded Q4 expectations across revenue, gross margin, and EPS even as we navigated industry-wide supply shortages,” said David Zinsner, Intel CFO. “We expect our available supply to be at its lowest level in Q1 before improving in Q2 and beyond. Demand fundamentals across our core markets remain healthy as the rapid adoption of AI reinforces the importance of the x86 ecosystem as the world’s most widely deployed high-performance compute architecture.”

Q4 2025 Financial Results

In the fourth quarter, the company generated $4.3 billion in cash from operations.

Full-Year 2025 Financial Results

For the full year, the company generated $9.7 billion in cash from operations.

Business Unit Summary

In the first quarter of 2025, the company made an organizational change to integrate the Network and Edge Group (NEX) into CCG and DCAI and modified Intel’s segment reporting to align to this and certain other business reorganizations. All prior-period segment data has been retrospectively adjusted to reflect the way Intel’s chief operating decision maker internally receives information and manages and monitors the company’s operating segment performance. Effective September 12, 2025, Altera, previously a wholly owned subsidiary, was deconsolidated from Intel’s consolidated financial statements following the closing of the sale of 51% of Altera’s issued and outstanding common stock. Altera’s financial results of operations were included in Intel’s consolidated financial results and its „all other“ business unit category for all periods presented through September 11, 2025. There are no changes to Intel’s consolidated financial statements for any prior periods.

Business Highlights

• Intel unveiled the Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 3 processor family, the company’s first AI PC platform built on the Intel 18A process technology, designed and manufactured in the United States. Intel Core Ultra Series 3 is expected to power more than 200 designs from leading, global original equipment manufacturers, spanning premium to mainstream laptops, gaming handhelds, robotics, and industrial edge devices. Intel Core Ultra Series 3 is expected to be the most broadly adopted and globally available AI PC platform Intel has ever delivered.
• Intel and Cisco announced a collaboration on an integrated platform for distributed AI workloads. Powered by Intel® Xeon® 6 system-on-chip (SoC), Cisco Unified Edge brings compute, networking, storage, and security closer to where data is generated, enabling real-time AI inferencing and agentic workloads at the edge. Intel also centralized its Data Center and AI businesses under Kevork Kechichian, executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center Group, ensuring tight coordination across CPUs, GPUs and platform strategy.
• Intel 18A ramped to high-volume manufacturing in Arizona and Oregon, reinforcing Intel’s position as the only company undertaking research, design and development of leading-edge and next generation semiconductor manufacturing technologies, as well as the high volume manufacturing of logic semiconductors utilizing leading-edge nodes in the U.S. Intel Foundry and ASML have demonstrated technical viability of the most advanced lithography scanner available in delivering improved accuracy and productivity that positions High Numerical Aperture (High NA) EUV for future high-volume manufacturing.
• Intel strengthened its leadership team with the appointments of Cindy Stoddard as senior vice president and chief information officer, Robin Colwell as senior vice president of government affairs, and Annie Shea Weckesser as senior vice president and chief marketing and communications officer. The company also announced that Craig H. Barratt, Ph.D., was appointed as an independent member of its board of directors.
• The sale of $5.0 billion of Intel common stock to NVIDIA was completed, further strengthening the company’s balance sheet and strategic flexibility.

Business Outlook

Intel’s guidance for the first quarter of 2026 includes both GAAP and non-GAAP estimates as follows:

Reconciliations between GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures are included below. Actual results may differ materially from Intel’s business outlook as a result of, among other things, the factors described under “Forward-Looking Statements” below. The gross margin and EPS outlooks are based on the midpoint of the revenue range.