Jim Cramer Took A Side On Biggest AI Debate & Discussed These 5 Stocks

2. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC)

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Chip manufacturing giant Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC)’s shares are among the best performers in the market this year. They are up by a whopping 472% over the past year and by 200% year-to-date. Freedom Broker discussed Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) on April 28th as it upgraded the shares to Buy from Hold and bumped the share price target to $100 from $25. The financial firm remarked that the chip manufacturer’s first-quarter earnings report was a marker of the transition to a new thesis under CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Cramer also discussed Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC)’s CEO:

“Well that stock is going much higher, what can I say. I mean Lip-Bu, he’s the CPU guy, and the CPUs turned out to be far more important because of the agents. And all we hear about, agent, agent, agent. Well, David, agents are the future and Intel is where you get the chips for the agent.

“Well what Lip-Bu was saying, the CEO of Intel, was look it’s the age, the intellectual property age of hardware. And the software has been, kind of, not wiped out, but the Anthropics, the OpenAIs, you can mimic a lot of stuff, better.”