Catenaa, Tuesday, August 11, 2026- Intel raised $20 billion in an upsized share sale, a third more than it was targeting when it announced the deal Monday morning.
The chipmaker priced the offering at $95 per share, according to a company statement. That represents a discount of 6.5% to Friday’s closing price, according to Bloomberg calculations.
The share sale drew more than $100 billion in demand, Bloomberg News reported.
Intel’s deal shows the resilience of investor demand for stocks along the artificial intelligence supply chain. The year’s biggest US equity offerings have been dominated by companies riding the AI spending boom.
Alphabet is in the process of raising as much as $85 billion through equity offerings, including so-called at-the-market share sales and equity-linked deals. And Oracle’s fundraising plans include a $20 billion at-the-market sale.
South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in its debut offering of American depositary receipts, the largest-ever listing by a foreign company on a US exchange.
Its rival CXMT raised about $9.9 billion last month in a near Chinese record initial public offering and subsequently became the largest mainland-listed company.
Intel’s shares fell 1% before the market opened in New York on Tuesday, after Monday’s close of $97.52.
They remain up roughly 164% this year, after Chief Executive Officer Lip-Bu Tan made cleaning up Intel’s finances a priority. The effort has included attracting outside investments from the US government and even chip rivals such as Nvidia
Intel is building up cash reserves to take on a more central role in the artificial intelligence boom.
The worldwide expansion of data centers has already bolstered demand for its general processors, but the company has struggled to compete directly with Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices in the market for AI processors.
Intel also needs funds to build out a factory network to meet its goal of serving as an outsourced manufacturing hub for the tech industry.
JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup are working on the offering, according to a statement earlier.
