U.S. President Donald Trump gestures after signing executive orders related to artificial intelligence during the "Winning the AI Race" Summit in Washington D.C., U.S., July 23, 2025. REUTERS/Kent Nishimura
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump is injecting nearly $9 billion into Intel in exchange for a 9.9% equity stake. But the money - which the struggling chipmaker was slated to receive anyway under a federal funding act - will not be enough for itscontract-chipmaking business to flourish, analysts said.
What Intel needs is external customers for its so-called cutting-edge 14A manufacturing process - a tough ask, at least in the short term.
