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High Life

What’s Going On Here?

Intel announced on Tuesday that it’s buying Tower Semiconductor for $5.4 billion, in hopes the Israeli chip manufacturer will take it straight to the top.

What Does This Mean?

Intel lost its title as the biggest chipmaker by revenue last year, and it’s been looking for ways to build up its business and reclaim that top spot ever since. And it seems to be hoping that Tower Semiconductor – which specializes in making chips for cars and medical sensors – can help it do just that. The move, after all, will allow the company to make chips for businesses other than its own, pushing the company into the contract chip manufacturing space that Taiwanese rival TSMC currently dominates. It won’t be starting from scratch, either: Tower already has decades of experience making a wide variety of chips for a wide variety of customers, from Broadcom to Analog Devices.

Why Should I Care?

For markets: Plan B.
Another of Intel’s revenue-pumping plans involves building more factories across Europe and the US. Then again, sprawling infrastructure and massive acquisitions are expensive, and they could ultimately take their toll on the chipmaker’s profit. That might be why Intel’s stock has underperformed an index tracking the world’s biggest chipmakers by 28% in the last twelve months. But Intel’s sticking to its guns: it’s expecting its profit margin to get back to normal when these investments start to pay off within the next five years.

The bigger picture: Plan C.
Intel’s got one more trick up its sleeve: the company's branching out from its trusty computer chips. It just launched a semiconductor that should make cryptocurrency mining more energy efficient – a growing concern within a booming market (tweet this). It’s doubling down on its self-driving business too: Mobileye announced plans earlier this week to roll out self-driving electric shuttles in the US by 2024.

You might also like: Here’s how to analyze Intel’s stock in just two hours.

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Stéphane Renevier, Analyst

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