Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Tech boom 2.0: Intel's earnings wave

Intel blown past Wall Street announces first quarter results, which is further evidence that the PC market and the technology industry as a whole is growing.

In the first quarter of 2011, Intel has about 12.8 billion dollars in revenue, 25% in the first quarter of 2010 (10.3 billion U.S. dollars) and 13% in the fourth quarter of 2010 ($ 11 5 billion € ). Therefore, he received $ 3160000000 tech giant net income (profit after taxes and depreciation). E 'up to U.S. $ 830,000,000 in Q1 2010, but almost identical to his victory in the fourth quarter of 2010 (3.18 billion dollars).

Intel enormous financial benefits from all walks of life - PC Client Group, Data Center Group, Department of Software and Services Group and all the double-digit growth in the first quarter of 2010. 56% of total sales in the Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) originated, while the U.S. accounted for 21% of profits. Japan alone accounts for 10% of Intel's profits in the first quarter of 2011


Intel's profit slightly surpassed Wall Street estimates. While analysts expect Intel to earn $ 0.46 per share, Intel rose $ 0.56 in the first quarter of 2011 to win. Revenues totaled $ 12800000000 highest in almost 10% less than the expectations of Wall Street. So Intel shares 5.24% to 20.88 after hours trading.

surprising strength in favor of Intel shows that demand for computers hampered by a new wave of mobile devices and tablets are flooding the market. Intel's positive results are also a great sign that the tech sector as a whole, healthy and growing.

Despite the excellent performance of the chip maker still faces a significant challenge to Apple, ARM, AMD and others. Apple is trying to post-PC world, that its line of Intel processors some damage (although the MacBook run on modern Intel processors). It 's always difficult in systems of smart phones, thanks to strong competition from ARM and Qualcomm.

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