What's Going On With Intel Stock On Friday?

Struggling chipmaker Intel Corp INTC continues to receive takeover proposals from chip companies, the latest being Arm Holdings Plc ARM following Qualcomm Inc‘s QCOM proposal earlier.

Arm Holdings recently proposed to acquire Intel’s product unit. However, Bloomberg reports that Intel is not looking to sell the business division.

Intel stock plunged 31% as it failed to capitalize on the artificial intelligence shift, which is something that contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co TSM excelled at.

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Meanwhile, some reports indicated Intel’s plans to convert its foundry business into an independent unit, including exploring a spinoff into a publicly traded company. The chipmaker also explored divesting stake in the programmable chip unit Altera.

However, Intel’s recent big wins included a U.S. chipmaking deal from Amazon.Com Inc’s AMZN Amazon Web services and the U.S. Chip grant.

The chipmaker also clarified that it would not divest a majority stake in the struggling Israeli autonomous driving company Mobileye Global Inc MBLY, whose stock is down 66% in the last 12 months.

Intel’s exploration of stake sales to companies like Qualcomm and Arm could hinder its U.S. subsidy over antitrust grounds, the Financial Times reports.

Multiple deals including Nvidia’s proposal to snap Arm Holdings from Softbank Group Corp SFTBF SFTBY and Intel’s Tower Semiconductor TSEM deal have succumbed to global regulatory opposition.

The semiconductor sector had a good week, buoyed by the key rate cuts in the U.S. and China, an upbeat quarterly print from Micron Technology, Inc MU, and continued AI investments from Big Tech companies.

Semiconductor ETFs, Invesco Semiconductors ETF PSI and SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF XSD, gained 5%- 7% in the last five days.

Price Action: INTC stock is down 0.04% at $23.91 at the last check on Friday.

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