CASE STUDY You have just been hired by Intel in its finance division.

Your first assignment is to

deter- mine the net cash flows and NPV of a proposed new generation of mobile
chips.
Capital expenditures to produce the new chips will initially require an
investment of
$1.2 billion. The R&D that will be required to finish the chips is $500 million this
year. Any ongoing R&D for upgrades will be covered in the margin calculation in
2a below. The product family is expected to have a life of five years. First-year
revenues for the new chip are expected to be $2,000,000,000 ($2,000 million). The
chip family’s revenues are expected to grow by 20% for the second year, and then
decrease by 10% for the third, decrease by 20% for the 4th and finally decrease by
50% for the 5th (final) year of sales. Your job is to determine the rest of the cash
flows associated with this project. Your boss has indicated that the operating costs
and net working capital requirements are similar to the rest of the company’s
products. Since your boss hasn’t been much help, here are some tips to guide your
analysis:
1. Obtain Intel’s financial statements. Download the annual income statements
and balance sheets for the last four fiscal years from Wall Street Journal
Website
(https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/INTC/financials/annual/income-
statement). Go to “Financials.” Click “Annual,” to ensure you’re getting
annual, instead of quarterly, data. Next, copy and paste the income
statements and balance sheets into Excel.
2. You are now ready to determine the free cash flow. Compute the free cash flow
for each year using Eq. 9.6 from this chapter showing all steps :
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Free Cash Flow = (Revenues - Costs - Depreciation) * (1 - Tax Rate)

+ Depreciation - CapEx - Change in NWC
Set up the timeline and computation of the free cash flow in separate,
contiguous columns for each year of the project life. Be sure to make outflows
negative and inflows positive.
a. Assume that the project’s profitability will be similar to Intel’s existing
projects in 2015 and estimate costs each year by using the 2015 ratio of non-
depreciation costs to revenue:
[(Cost of Revenue + SG&A + R&D)/ Total Revenue]
You should assume that this ratio will hold for this project as well. You do not
need to break out the individual components of operating costs in your
forecast. Simply forecast the total of Cost of Revenue + SG&A + R&D for
each year.
b. Determine the annual depreciation by assuming Intel depreciates these assets
by the straight-line method over a 5-year life.
c. Determine Intel’s tax rate as [1 - (Income After Tax/Income Before Tax)] in
2015. Note that on Intel’s income statement on Google Finance, there is a
difference between operating income and income before tax. That difference is
due to small adjustments. Ignore this issue and simply focus on the Income
Before Tax line.
d. Calculate the net working capital required each year by assuming that the
level of NWC will be a constant percentage of the project’s sales. Use
Intel’s 2015 NWC/Sales to estimate the required percentage. (Use only
accounts receivable, accounts payable, and inventory to measure working
capital. Other components of current assets and liabilities are harder to
interpret and are not necessarily reflec- tive of the project’s required NWC—
e.g., Intel’s cash holdings.)
e. To determine the free cash flow, calculate the additional capital investment
 and the change in net working capital each year.
3. Determine the IRR of the project and the NPV of the project at a cost of capi-
tal of 12% using the Excel functions. For the calculation of NPV, include
cash flows 1 through 5 in the NPV function and then subtract the initial cost
(i.e., = NPV 1 rate, CF1 : CF5 2 + CF0 2 . For IRR, include cash flows 0 through 5
in the cash flow range