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Qualcomm wants to buy Intel

What’s next for Intel?

Intel, meanwhile, is arguably in its weakest position in years — while many of its businesses are still profitable, the company announced substantial cuts, shifts in strategy, and a 15-plus percent downsizing of its workforce this August after reporting a $1.6 billion loss. Many of Intel’s woes are about silicon leadership, not just manufacturing or profits — the company isn’t a big player in AI server chips yet, nor even necessarily a notable small one like AMD; its attempts to produce its own GPUs for gamers and creators have yet to impress. Aside from the Nintendo Switch, whose processors are made by Nvidia, every major game console for the last decade has featured an AMD chip — and Intel reportedly lost out on a chance to change that with the future PlayStation 6.

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