Can Intel Invest Its Way Out of its Rut?

When the President Paul S. Otellini indicated this year earlier than Intel (INTC) would invest $7 billion to improve its factories of the United States, it resembled an example of the world of the 'manufacturer of integrated circuits dominating of S undertaking of the aggressive steps while others fought. But in the slides, of the senior officers and the directors were employed during the wild discussion. Although the company strongly has a long story of the investment during the reductions, several members of the council doubted that the traditional strategy always seemed reasonable, say sources to the current of the discussions. Not only the economy it seemed rougher than constantly at Intel 'history of S, but these last years the company 'the enormous asylum of investments of S 't helped its actions.

Otellini reigned on the question of investment. But the council extracted from the concessions: The directors pressed it to reduce expenditure radically, with 6.000 dismissals and the closing-down of several factories of ageing. One eliminated from the disbursements of merit. And the committee of compensation, carried out by the old Hundt reed of President of Federal Commission of the Communications, attached the executive wages to the execution of always front stockmarket more narrowly than. The basic salaries were compensationplus or options and concessions cold and other of without-actions that often the total 10 times wage-will be determined by the way in which the shares of Intel relative make with a basket pars '. The movements are envisaged to concentrate employees at this critical point of inflection on creating constant increases in our, stock exchange of actions committee of Hundt 'of S wrote in the company 'the report/ratio of procuration of S.

Otellini can have one difficult moment to require all its money. Intel are always by far the dominating manufacturer of the GCV actuating of pieces, with a market share of 82% close to its point highest. The company also has a new family of more sophisticated pieces which gains converts, of Apple (AAPL) and Cisco Systems (CSCO) with General Electric (GE). But the investors are detached. The company the 'actions of S.A. dropped almost 40% during the five last years as great establishments such as Fidelity Investments, the price of T. Rowe (TROW), the possessions of HSBC (HBC), and BlackRock (black) emptied the majority of their possessions. Intel is wedged a little in the vacuum, indicates David Eiswert, a director of booklet with the price of T. Rowe.

Their concern was fed by Intel 'report/ratio of incomes of first quarter of S on April 14. Although Otellini called a bottom in the demand for PC, Intel 'the net revenue of S.A. tumbled down 55% and it refused to provide councils of income during the year.

The question for investors is same more muddled Otellini and its panel: Can Intel nevertheless allow itself to carry out the industry of technology the manner that it has in the past? During decades, Intel poured billion in its factories to turn the crank of the never-more-powerful microprocessors outside. The customers scrambled to obtain GCV with the last pieces as soon as they left, paying a premium which amplified Intel 'benefit of S thus it could begin the cycle of investment once again.

But little concentration on the consumer on the piece dispatches from now on. They 'on the subject enough of rapid. At the same time, the sales of PC slow down. Intel 'virtuous circle of S looks at as if it could break up. The incomes last year, to $37.6 billion, were about identical level as in 2005. Last year 'the net income of S, to $5.3 billion, was 40% more humbly than four years more earlier. The investors doubt openly that him 'time of S so that Intel relieves upwards on its investments of capital. This company is with stage where people are wondering what the potential growth is, says the analyst Uche Orji of UBS (UBS).

Otellini does not have any interest for the deceleration. Instead of that, him 'intention of S on restoring sales at Intel 'businesses of PC of core of S while guiding the company in the new markets all of growth. He sees a promising occasion to diversify with a new family of the pieces called Atom for any instrument which needs capacity for treatment and the access to the Internet, of a television Web-connected to a cash register with Wal-Mart (WMT) this reaches at current prices and offers the goods adapted to the customer requirements by customers. Such companies could add $10 billion at Intel with the 'sales S from here 2011, it says. [the atom is] a vehicle of entry to being able to employ best our technology to enter, of markets Otellini indicates.
ONCE BITTEN

Many large investors are skeptics because they the 'VE burned by Intel 'diversification of S envisages front. The company spent of tens of billion towards end of the year 90 trying to push in the markets during the graying years of point-COM, only to deaden the majority of the investments after the bust. Then towards the end of 2003, it made it possible at Advanced Micro Devices rival (AMD) to obtain the jump on Intel 'the principal engine of benefit of S, the lucrative market of corporation of waiter, with the pieces of ideal efficiency and with high output that the customers liked. Intel scratched its back in manner two years afterwards. But the investors specify it had only AMD to beat among a massive jump in the request for China, of India, and other economies to develop.

Today Intel faces head winds of a weak total economy, and in the companies of growth him 'optimization of S, a group of holders deep-pocketed and senior including/understanding Qualcomm (QCOM), of Texas Instruments (TXN), and of Nvidia (NVDA). The great dissension will be above new types of devices of mobile-calculation, of the advanced cellphones to the inexpensive netbooks with the products Juste-being born in the interval. This market could be twice larger than the traditional market of PC.

Qualcomm and others employ a rival architecture of piece, created by a company called the possessions of ARMS, which can run all the day without draining a device the 'lifespan of the pile of S, unlike Intel 'of the pieces of S. the rivals go to the front also of Microsoft (MSFT) and other realizers to create the software to consume-friendly that the races on their pieces before Intel can strike. Eiswert at the cost of T. Rowe indicates the fine number of present of competitors a challenge: Him 's all against Intel.

Needs for Intel to carry out heavy investments so that the atom can as become of ideal efficiency as those of the camp of ARM by the next year. Without pieces of low-power, Intel can see well the turn of manufacturers of device to the competitors. Him the 'race of SA in this moment to see which will arrive there the first, indicates the President Paul E. Jacobs de Qualcomm.
CHANGES OF C-SUITE

Intel 'council of S incites Otellini and its team to mark out much of their wages on success. This year, the 21 principal executives received , current units of outperformance instead of their options to buy of usual actions and restricted actions. The value of the units, which invest over three years, will be pinned with the way whose Intel 'actions of S carries out relative with the 15 companies of technology in the S&P 100 index, including IBM (IBM), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), and Microsoft. He 's not simply this year 'wages of S on the line one or the other. Otellini holds of the options on 5.6 million shares of Intel, of the concessions going back to 1999. All are under water.

The President and his team face an inadvertency more independent of council, too. In January, Jane E. Shaw, 69, a former pharmaceutical director, were called to succeed as President the next month of Craig Barrett, the former President of Intel. It will be the first time that a foreigner played this part. Shaw, Hundt, and other members of the council refused requests of the interviews.

However the company the 'executives of S have a clear point of view of their long-term goal. In January, to the manufacturer of integrated circuits into the 'annual gathering of S of its TEAM sales to the Venetian casino of hotel of resource in Las Vegas, vice-president executive Sean that Mr. Maloney, who directs sales and marketing, indicated Intel employees was not isolated from the mother of all the reductions. But Intel the 'taking risk of S says it sponged with technologies world-changeantes. Plus bad thing so that we make is to avoid the experimentation, the new substance of test to increase, the market Maloney indicates.