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The big picture: The past several years have seen some of the worst figures in Intel’s 56-year history. The company faces trouble on all fronts, from foundry to consumer processors and server chips. As Intel reorganizes its foundry operations, new analysis paints a grim picture of its server business’s current trajectory.
According to SemiAnalysis, Intel’s 2024 server processor volume declined for the third year straight. Following the precipitous drop in 2023, the company’s data center business has reached a 14-year low.
Based on data from Intel’s 10K reports, analysts have charted Intel’s data center CPU volume since 2011. The numbers aren’t exact and appear as a percentage of 2011’s total, but they reveal a peak in 2021, followed by an ongoing decline. The most dramatic fall occurred in 2023 when server processor volume plummeted by 50 percent of 2011’s count. Intel’s volume has fallen by over half since 2021.
Intel’s server CPU chip volume hit the lowest in last 14 years for the second straight year in 2024. It’s
