Intel is getting a $2 billion investment from SoftBank

Intel and softbank announced On Monday, the Japanese holding will make a chipset where an investment of $ 2 billion will invest.

Softbank will pay $ 23 per share for Intel’s ordinary stock. Intel shares increased by 4% in expanded transaction.

Investment is a vote of confidence in Intel, who spends a production business that does not benefit from AI explosion in advanced semiconductors and does not yet secure a production production.

“We’ve worked together for decades and I appreciate the confidence in Intel with this investment,” Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan said. He said.

Intel shares lost 60% of their values last year, the company’s worst performances in the public market with more than half a century. From the closing of Monday, the stock increased by 18% in 2025.

Lip-this tan, investors’ pressure prices falling to the manufacturer, after the Intel CEO in March, he worked as an Intel CEO.

In recent days, Intel has been a critical US supplier because the company has been the subject of a discussion in Washington because it is the only American company that can produce the most advanced chips.

However, for other companies called Intel’s Foundry business, business production chips have not yet secured a large customer, which would be a critical step towards stabilization and expansion. Last month, Intel said he would expect to secure orders before making more investment in his document.

Last week, Tan met with President Donald Trump after asking for the resignation of President Tan. According to reports, the US government is considering receiving a self -shares in Intel.

Softbank has become an increasingly larger player in global chip and AI markets.

In 2016, Softbank acquired Chip Designer Arm with an agreement worth approximately $ 32 billion at the time. Today the company is worth almost $ 150 billion.

ARM -based chips are part of Nvidia’s systems entering data centers. And in March of this year, Softbank announced that it plans to buy another chip designer Ampere Computing for $ 6.5 billion.

Softbank was also part of President Donald Trump’s Stargate announcement in January with Openai and Oracle.

The three companies have committed to invest in the AI infrastructure project up to the top 100 billion dollars and $ 500 billion in the next four years. Two months later, Softbank made an investment tour of $ 40 billion for Openai, the biggest special technology agreement in the recording.

“This strategic investment plays a critical role in the US, reflecting our belief that the developed semiconductor production and supply will expand even further,” Masayoshi Son, Softbank CEO. He said.