Intel's fabs may at long last be worth all those billions of dollars

by adminApril 10, 2026013

After several years of uncertainty, job cuts, issues with self-destroying CPUs, and spending billions of dollars on its foundries, Intel has made big strides in moving into a better place. Thanks largely to its latest products and deals with other tech and AI giants. Investors certainly seem to think so, because its market cap is now the highest it has been in more than two and a half decades.

As reported by Tom’s Hardware, you can see the figures yourself and easily spot that the last time Intel’s market capitalization was above the $300 billion mark was all the way back in October 2000. According to CompaniesMarketCap, the site tracking the figures, this makes Team Blue the 47th most valuable company in the world, though just by market cap and nothing else.

It’s certainly faring better than other US-based chip companies, such as Texas Instruments and Qualcomm, which are either relatively static or currently on a bit of a slide, in terms of market cap.

Chasing down manufacturing orders seems to be what investors are most interested in Intel doing right now, probably because no matter what its desktop CPUs are like (or what they do to themselves), Intel’s overall processor market share is still pretty dominant. AMD is certainly making headway in the world of server chips, though, and when it comes to PC gaming and consoles, Team Red rules the roost.

A healthy AMD and Intel is good news for consumers, because having just one company utterly dominate a market isn’t great for competition (*cough graphics cards *cough). Investors are perhaps less concerned by this, but they’re certainly happy with how things are going at Intel right now.