The move could be seen as a vote of confidence for Intel, which has been playing catch-up in an industry that has chased the artificial intelligence boom.

Intel will receive a much-needed $2 billion capital injection from the Japanese venture capital giant, SoftBank Group, a move that signals the latter's increasing desire to attain a foothold in the b...

The extent of third-party investment will determine what other financing tools, such as bank loans and debt issuance, it may have to deploy.