Intel surged 255% to $109, with Q2 revenue up 25% to $16 billion and Data Center sales jumping 59% year over year. NVIDIA took a $5 billion stake in Intel and selected Xeon 6 as host CPU for DGX Rubin systems, flipping rivalry into partnership. At 57x forward earnings with Foundry burning up to $2.5 billion per quarter, Intel is priced as a finished turnaround while still being fixed.
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Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) has gone from a low-twenties stock that missed the AI wave to a name trading at $108.60, a 255.25% one-year run. The operational fix under CEO Lip-Bu Tan is genuine, and NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) validated it by taking a $5 billion equity stake in Q3 2025. The debate has shifted from whether Intel can be fixed to whether the share price has already spent the fix.
Q2 revenue reached $16.13 billion, up 25.4% year over year, beating consensus by 11.64%. Non-GAAP EPS came in at $0.42 versus a $0.22 estimate. Data Center and AI revenue hit $6.26 billion, up 59%, with Xeon 6 selected as host CPU for NVIDIA's DGX Rubin NVL8 systems.
Tan called the quarter Intel's "strongest revenue growth in more than fifteen years", and Intel 18A entered high-volume manufacturing. Against Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD), Intel is finally landing punches in server CPUs, with management saying "strong demand for our products continue to outpace our growing supply." Against NVIDIA, the relationship has flipped from rivalry to partnership on the CPU side, but NVIDIA's AI-compute franchise remains the reason Intel Foundry still lost $2.1 billion last quarter. 24/7 Wall St has helped investors make money for over two decades, and our top analysts just finished ranking the definitive Top 10 Stocks To Buy Now. Not the ten biggest companies.
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