“Our outlook for server CPU demand has improved over the last 90 days, and we expect a strong year of double-digit unit growth for the industry and for us, with momentum extending into 2027.”

In context

“ahead, we remain mindful that the macroeconomic and geopolitical environments are dynamic. Views on global growth, policy, and trade continue to shape customer behavior and investment decisions. In addition, constraints and rising prices around key components like memory, wafers, and substrates are driving higher costs that could impact demand for our product at some point in the year. We are prudently planning for PC demand to weaken in the second half of the year and expect the full-year PC unit TAM to be down low double-digit percent, in line with industry peers and experts. Offsetting this, near-term customer order patterns remain very robust across all of our businesses. In addition, our confidence in the sustained growth of CPUs, driven by the AI infrastructure buildout, is growing. Our outlook for server CPU demand has improved over the last 90 days, and we expect a strong year of double-digit unit growth for the industry and for us, with momentum extending into 2027. Combining all of these factors, we are guiding Q2 to a range of $13.8 to $14.8 billion, up 2% to 9% sequentially. As we work hard to support the needs of all of our customers, we expect sequential revenue growth in both CCG and DCAI on improved supply and a full quarter of pricing actions, with DCAI up double digits. At the midpoint of $14.3 billion, we forecast a gross margin of 39%, a tax rate of 11%, and EPS of $0.20, all on a non-GAAP basis. Our Q2 gross margin guide declines modestly from Q1 due to a meaningfully larger contribution from Intel 18A, still early in its ramp, and some inventory benefits in Q1 that are not expected to repeat in Q2. On the full year, we expect our factory network to continue increasing available supply in the third and fourth quarters at a more measured p”