152305851 : agreed with all this except for the R&D part. I strongly believe that intel will be assisted by DARPA for next gen tech. the reasons we don't know about it is .gov want china in the dark for obvious reasons. I also believe that intel culled all potential leakers in the 14k layoffs. the CEO purchased 250k shares recently so maybe that is good indication for trick up Intel's sleeve. the US will not let Intel fail.

151654992 OP 152305851 : They are working on quantum computing. This thing has a longer lead time, but is revolutionary like the first antibiotics.

GoldmanStacks : honestly I'm not too sure why ppl bitch unless they lost a bunch, but that's on them. regardless 15% less workforce and saving as much as 10+ billion will pump up those earnings numbers just like it did for MSFT. they are also dealing with financial giants like Goldman Sach and Morgan stanley, who have endless pull and connections. so I'm definitely not feeling bad about buying long calls as it was dumping! ppl need to read between the lines with the market, nobody will come and tell you " OK, Timmy grab my hand. let's buy some of this, you will make money. " What you will get is " don't buy this sh.t, it's game over, the world is over, the stock dumps becauze retail just reacts rather than think"

104595693 : finally a proper step ( even it is rumour ) to split off the foundry. Now immediately the stock price flies